Harbor Pointe Freeway News: HIGHWAY TRAFFIC NOISE ABATEMENT

I-5 CITIZENS COMMENT TIME HAS NOW PASSED!

Our sincere thanks to all who took the time and effort to comment on the expansion of Interstate 5. CalTrans now has hundreds if not thousands of comments to answer, and indicates it will take some time to do so. They have also indicated they will make some of their responses public on the site http://www.keepsandiegomoving.com/

As I remember, that was never indicated to anyone at the outset; we expected a personal response as we provided a personalized question as they requested. CalTrans didn't provide a website for us to access to leave comments, just written or e-mail.

We'll now see how government listens to the people, and whether SANDAG and CalTrans are really interested in what the voices said collectively fron North to South. Or whether this is just a political football they want to punt around for a year so they can enrich a select group of contractors and civil engineers, and keep loads of State employees on the payroll, while they tie up traffic needlessly for twenty or thirty years, pollute the air, destroy our views and damage our health. Let's hope they actually listened! (Does this sound like distrust? You better believe it!)

Stay tuned for the latest in the ongoing saga of "The People Said...NO."

NOISE LEVEL TESTING

Preliminary Sound Level testing shows that the numbers released by CalTrans are based on a "model" that is computer generated. Nowhere can we find that they actually took physical sound level readings anywhere in Harbor Pointe.

Our own Sound Level tests show noise levels to be two to four times the CalTrans indicated noise levels at one location, and up to eight times the CalTrans noise levels at another location, this during what I estimate as "moderate traffic" movement, and not during what the CalTrans model estimates as Peak Traffic modes.

Once again, contact us at hpfreeway@att.net if you want to know just how loud the sound levels are outside your home now, and what you might expect if the freeway expansion is built!

Caveat

This blog is not an official publication of Harbor Pointe and does not convey, nor attempt to convey, the opinion of the Board of Directors, or any elected officials or residents of Harbor Pointe other than the writers. The only exception to this are any comments left by others, which are at the sole discretion of the author of those comments.

All opinions and statements are just that, opinions or information gathered through personal observation, and laid out for the purpose of information only. The information herein is designed for no other purpose and should not be relied upon for any legal or governmental purpose whatsoever.
Codes and statutes, when quoted, are federal, state, county or local and will have the source indicated along with the information. Further information on how laws, codes and standards may affect you should be referred to the proper governmental agencies.

Your Homeowners Association is Not Involved In This!

Your Homeowners Association Board has chosen to step back from this issue and not to take a stand in either direction. That, of course, is their legal stand and point well taken. The rest of us can ill afford to take that stand and wait until the earthmovers are in close proximity to our development to choose whether or not to take action against this project. It's an individual choice. But you may only have one chance to make it.

The people fighting this project have no direct connection to the Homeowners association, are NOT a committee of the HOA, nor are our activities supported by them. We are simply a group of concerned citizens operating independently to disseminate information on the facts and fallacies, as we see and uncover them, on the I-5 Widening Project.

Important References

CalTrans EIR/EIS Draft Document: http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist11/Env_docs/I-5NCCDraft.html

Cal Trans General Information: http://www.keepsandiegomoving.com/I-5-Corridor/I-5-intro.aspx

SANDAG: (San Diego Association of Governments) http://www.sandag.org/

Federal Highway Administration: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/

Federal Highway Administration (Scroll to Subchapter H) http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?sid=8d2e087a695e9550ebb5a4ca37fc84fa&c=ecfr&tpl=/ecfrbrowse/Title23/23cfrv1_02.tpl#200

California DOT HIGHWAY TRAFFIC NOISE ABATEMENT http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/oppd/hdm/pdf/chp1100.pdf

CalTrans I-5 Widening Project: I-5 North Coast Corridor Team CalTrans District 11 4050 Taylor Street San Diego, CA 92110 Public Information: (619) 688-6723

Carlsbad City Council e-mail: council@carlsbadca.gov

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