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311 complaint of the day: All the noise, noise, noise, noise down in West Roxbury
By adamg on Fri, 10/18/2024 - 1:14pm
A bedeviled resident filed a 311 complaint about the infernal racket outside the Verizon switching station on Belgrade Avenue near Lord's and Lady's Way in West Roxbury:
Seems like everyone brought their equipment to test it out, things are parked in the middle of the road, backing up beeping back and forth, scraping and crashing noises, parked in the middle and blocking the road, its also 7:40. company logo on all the trucks was BroX. I would absolutely like them to not ever do this again. they have the whole building surrounded, making every machinery sound imaginable.
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This person should have
This person should have cropped off the gallery of photos across the bottom.
totally detracts from the actual complaint
Difficult to identify too!
Is that a topless photo or is
Is that a topless photo or is she just wearing a light colored shirt?
Are those cats or dogs? Does
Are those cats or dogs? Does it matter?
Whatever happened to Lord's and Lady's
I seem to recall back in the 80s/90s they were everywhere. Now there's only the one in West Roxbury and a second one in NH?
Oh but they have a permit to
Oh but they have a permit to spread loud noise pollution in the middle of the night!! Don't get me started. My neighbors and I are suffering with the all night til dawn heavy construction and concrete grinding, screeching and shoveling crushed stone on top of pavement and then dumping it with a dumptruck in big piles of lung cancer causing concrete dust uncovered n the MBTA bus yard at Forest Hills. 311 says call MassDOT and MBTA. They tell me they have a. Permit to make humans suffer from sleep deprivation. WTF??!!
Few choices
The work can only be done during the night because this is a bottleneck area for traffic and buses during the day. The work is necessary to be completed in advance of the eventual closure of the nearby West Roxbury Parkway bridge. When that work starts the parkway bridge will be closed off for a full rebuild and all of its traffic will be funneled over Belgrade Ave and some down South Street to Walworth St. Note also Walworth St. bridge is also having necessary work done now in advance of that parkway bridge closure.
It appears that the work at Walworth and at Belgrade were not announced to local abutters either so this may also be some kind of emergency work. The process has been non-traditional for sure.
I can guarantee noise complaints for night work will not change anything.
City life can sometimes be difficult. You'll really have fun when they decide to re-rail and re-ballast the railroad tracks. That's night work as well. Been through that myself.
You have my sympathies
One summer I had construction work outside my window every night due to work on Route 9, which I lived one house away from. I would find myself crying at work because I was so tired I couldn't think.
For those of you going "that's what you get for living in the city", I grew up in Manhattan and lived across the street from a hospital, 2 blocks from a fire station, and above a subway stop in high school. The noise from that was nothing compared to the noise of all night construction for weeks on end.
We need a City Council Hearing
Construction should only be done between the hours of 9 AM and 5 PM. Concrete and asphalt should be passed by hand and gently stacked in dump trucks with foam-lined beds.
But then you would complain
But then you would complain about the traffic.