Loud noises!

[billharnois.livejournal.com]

Airplane noise is up 3X in Davis area this year. This is confirmed by Somerville Transportation Equity Partnership (STEP) and our mayor. You may or may not have read the articles in the news. Both STEP and our mayor have encouraged people who are annoyed by the noise, to call this number and complain:

(617) 561-3333

Here is some more info:

http://www.somervillestep.org/mt/mt-search.cgi?search=logan

The more people that call and complain the better chance we have in getting a reduction in overhead flights (so we're told).

If you don't care about the increase, or don't care about planes flying by every 40 seconds, please read all of the witty responses below instead.

Comments

quiet neighborhood

[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

No, the community is hardly pro-noise. However, there's not a lot of tolerance for ill-thought out comments like This is a new problem to Somerville. We didn't choose to live in Winthrop where this is expected. If the weather is bad, then the people flying should have to wait

It's not a new problem, as others in the thread have indicated.

agreeleyo's post below contains the number you should call to complain.

Re: quiet neighborhood

[ruxxell.livejournal.com]

HONK TO IMPEACH doesnt sound like "hardly pro-noise" to me.

Re: quiet neighborhood

[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

If you actually bothered to read the post about HONK TO IMPEACH (http://community.livejournal.com/davis_square/949744.html), you'll see that people weren't too thrilled with it.

Re: quiet neighborhood

[billharnois.livejournal.com]

It is new problem. You are incorrect.

Re: quiet neighborhood

[kpht.livejournal.com]

No it's not. I first noticed it months ago.

Re: quiet neighborhood

[billharnois.livejournal.com]

It depends what you mean by new. I consider anything during 2006/2007 new. I heard it months ago too, so I guess we agree.

Re: quiet neighborhood

[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

Your evidence?

To mine, I point to other people's comments (in this and previous posts) mentioning the issue as a problem for years. The frequency may have increased, or people are just more bothered by it, but it's not new at all.

Re: quiet neighborhood

[billharnois.livejournal.com]

I'm saying it's an increase in frequency. Obviously planes used to fly over Somerville in the past, but that amount tripled this year.

STEP had the evidence @ArtBeat and probably at their website. I don't have time to dig it up.

Re: quiet neighborhood

[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

Ah, well, I agree that it does seem to have become more frequent of late, even though the problem's been noted for some time.

Re: quiet neighborhood

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Here you go (http://www.somervillestep.org/mt/mt-search.cgi?search=logan). Now you have an extra 1.5 minutes for griping on LJ!

Re: quiet neighborhood

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Having now taken some time to look at this data and think about it - it's not especially useful. It only compares 2006 to 2007. And there's nothing much about -why- it's happening: Have the total number of flights from Logan changed? Have there been significantly more days this year, compared to last, with wind patterns such that aircraft have to fly over Somerville, in which case, it seems we're SOL? Etc.

Re: quiet neighborhood

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

Most likely some *other* neighborhood whined and bitched until they changed the flight paths. Now they'll wait until force to change them again, and just round-robin, pissing off each group a little at a time. ;-)

Well, that and 'richest complainers win'.