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Beacon's Field Citizens Investigated in the Soundwall Project

Léger360 survey collected 600 responses, including input from 100 residents in each of the six districts of Beacon's Field. Will be done.

The MTQ proposes a noise barrier of woven willow ross along Highway 20 in Beaconsfield between Devon and Jasper roads. The project could cost up to $60 million.
MTQ is a willow woven along highway 20 We are proposing a soundproof wall for Ross. Beacon's Field between Devon Road and Jasper Road. This project can cost up to $ 60 million.Photo courtesy of: Transport Quebec

Beaconsfield City is on the south side of Highway 20.

The wall extends 5 kilometers from Devon Road. Located west of the eastern border of the city of Jasper Road. The Quebec Department of Transport (MTQ) estimates that the sound barrier ofcan cost up to $ 60 millionMTQ pays 75% of the cost and the city costs 25%. Will bear.

Beaconsfield Mayor Georges Bourelle said the findings are expected by mid-July. The Léger 360 survey collects 600 responses over the phone, including opinions from 100 residents in each of the city's six districts.

"Each district gives the area a kind of" feel "," Bourelle said.

The survey also includes responses from residents living on both the north and south sides of the highway 20 that crosses the city.

After the investigation is complete, the city administration and council will investigate the data.

"The next step is to hold a caucuses at the end of July," Bourelle said. "We will look at all the information we have obtained.

" This survey gives an answer about the percentage of people who want and don't want the wall. For those who want, it will give us an idea of ​​how they intend to pay for the wall.

"And for those who don't want the wall, well, why?

Apart from the main survey, Leger Marketing was asked to conduct smaller, more targeted surveys of people living closest to the highway. , Bourelle said. "We will investigate about 50 people who are closest to the wall. This will be an addendum to this investigation."

He said Congress would be at the caucuses next month. He said he had to make a decision on the issue of healthy walls. "One goes to the referendum, or, depending on the information gathered, stops everything there."

"Ultimately it's up to the council." Said Bourelle. "It's not up to me." 

Apart from the recentpublic relations session at the city hall, Bourelle is the next inhabitant of the city. He said he also held an invitation-only session for. To the highway.

He said the invitation was sent to "around 100 homes right next to the freeway, all people with a backyard on the freeway."

Only about 20 residents accepted the invitation, Bourelle said. "I was disappointed with the very few answers."

Bourelle said that not all residents who accepted the invitation to the noise barrier session were in favor of the noise barrier. Said not.

"That's amazing. There are people (residents) who want to know when a wall will come in and when it will be built, and they are ready to pay for the wall. Then a neighbor comes in and says they don't want a wall. It's very controversial, even for those nearby.

"The majority of people living (near the freeway) want a wall, but that's not unanimous. Some people still don't want a wall.

" And a wall If you don't want it, why? "

One of the residents who wants to build a wall is Michelle Liu, who is responsible for the Beaconsfield Pollution Corridor Initiative. Noise pollution from Highway 20 poses a health threat to nearby citizens, he says.

"This is not a money issue, but ahealth issue," Rheault recently told Montreal Gazette.

Rheault points to an email from Dr. David Kaiser, Environmental Health Officer at CIUSSS du Center-Sud-de-l'Île-de-Montréal, to support his health claim. .. In an email dated 31 May, Kaiser said that the noise level measured by MTQ in 2010 in the area south of Highway 20 was recognized by the World Health Organization, Quebec National Institute of Public Health, and Montreal Public Health. It states that it is higher than the level. Department

Bourelle said he had contacted Dr. Kaiser to clarify his position on this issue.

The city council's final decision on a healthy wall may take place in August.

jmeagher @ postmedia. com

  1. Beaconsfield sound wall advocate Michel Rheault with a decimal reading app on his iPhone next to Highway 20.

    Beacon's Field Sound Barriers Discussion: Public Health or Money Issues.

  2. The MTQ proposes a noise barrier of woven willow ross along Highway 20 in Beaconsfield between Devon and Jasper roads. The project could cost up to $60 million.

    Beacon's Field consults with the general public about noise barriers on highway 20

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