Constant Plane Noise This Morning

[amy-s1.livejournal.com]

Let me say this first before you call me a whiner - watch the planes on this map for this morning of Friday 12/11: http://www4.passur.com/bos.html

You can replay any point in time with the menu bar at the top, you can even speed it up to 10X. Or you can watch "live" with a 10 minute delay.

Now, if those green planes dont go right over where you live, dont call the rest of us whiners. If they do go right over you, you know what I am talking about. My 5 month old daughter is constantly woken up by these planes and they can rattle the house.

Watch the flow of the planes coming off of runway 33L (the long one that points straight at Chelsea). The vast majority of them bank left and come straight over Davis Square almost every time. How about a little distribution over Harvard Sq, West Cambridge, etc?? Not to mention winds this morning are from the W/SW, not the Northwest.

Now, lets log complaints here: http://www.massport.com/logan/airpo_noise_compl.html

Comments

[justjess.livejournal.com]

Agreed. I live right by Logan and I'm sick of everyone complaining about this.

[genesayssitdown.livejournal.com]

it's pretty irritating. we live in a major metropolitan area, with a big ass airport. i mean, jet noises are kind of abrasive at times, i get it, but i feel as if a lot of people feel as if they are entitled over everyone else to not have to experience it! where as to me, it seems these days at least they're making an effort to not just blast certain working class areas of boston to death with the noise.

this is a city wide problem to tackle; send all those planes out to sea, and have them turn around when they're at a high enough elevation that it's not really that much of a bother. but just complaining that some morning they were over your house instead of someone else's, it just doesn't fly.

[amy-s1.livejournal.com]

its nto about entitlement, its about the fact that certain neighborhoods have always had these planes. People moved there well knowing it, and their homes are insulated and soundproofed by Massport.

These planes coming over Somerville and Medford in such high volume is a NEW thing, and the homes here are not equipped for it and Massport wont pay for it.

I addition, the new runway was supposed in reduce delays and it didnt work!

[genesayssitdown.livejournal.com]

i mean, i'm pretty sure there are no homes that have been soundproofed under the fcc or massport's budget are that far away from logan airport. the areas where such soundproofing has happened have been in communities REALLY effected by airplane noise, as they're within one or two miles, directly neighboring the airport. davis square is 5 - 6 miles away, the noise is no different from any other airplane noise 5 - 6 miles away from logan.

i remember being young and waking up to the house rattling, and booming sounds of jet planes overhead. in my mind, that's normal. that is just what it is like growing up. i had no idea until i was older that people in other areas of the boston area the same distance from logan didn't experience this.

i think we should get a little more conceptual and ideal with this and propose that all airports should be in the middle of nowhere, away from densely populated areas.

[zenala.livejournal.com]

i think we should get a little more conceptual and ideal with this and propose that all airports should be in the middle of nowhere, away from densely populated areas.

Ooh! It could be like Dulles! There's nothing quite as fun as having to drive 25 miles out of a major city to get to the airport. [/sarcasm]

[genesayssitdown.livejournal.com]

haha i barely ever fly, fine with me!

[koshmom.livejournal.com]

Have you been to Dulles lately? It's building up all around there (Herndon, etc) and I wonder if the new "locals" are starting to complain about plane noise?

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

To be fair, there's Washington International Airport, which is three miles from the center of town, and Dulles has to be 25 miles away because it's freakin' HUGE.

[ron_newman]

that's Washington National not International. I don't think any flights go from there to non-US destinations. Yes, I know it got a new name a decade or so ago, but I refuse to use it.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Ack, it is national, I don't know what I was thinking.

And, yes, the name the Republicans inflicted on that airport is not its proper name. Hopefully in my lifetime it'll be changed to something more appropriate.

[zaarwin-devolve.livejournal.com]

Yep. With only a couple of exceptions, planes can't fly any further than 1500 miles to/from WNA. (I too refuse to acknowledge Mr. I-Don't-Recall.) It's weird to look out the window and feel like you're about to crash into The Pentagon.

Anyway, I lived down around that area for five years and never heard anybody complain about noise. It may very well have happened but it never made the news or anything like that.