The Village of Justice is about to break........

The monthly record for loudest month of traffic noise!  Yes!   Errrr....  I think that's bad?


I've been actively logging the daily traffic noise since March of this year.  So, last night I was getting ready for bed at around midnight and I could hear the traffic noise through our double pane windows.  I went out and took a quick reading 52dB all coming from the I-55 direction.  Seemed odd, as most traffic noise comes from the I-294 direction.  Who knows, maybe the heavy wooded lot that was (located at the end of Oak Grove) clear-cut by the village a couple of years ago lets the sound travel 1 MILE to my house and still be 52 dB.  I got up to go to the bathroom around 4 am and I could hear the traffic just as loud- so I took another reading at 52 dB.  When I left for work at 5:45 am it was still 52 dB-  does anybody else think this is a problem?

Oh, getting back to the record-  so far this month traffic noise is averaging 48.8 dB.  I find it hard to believe it will drop 1 full decibel before the end of the month- but who knows.  God, how I have become to love construction to lower the traffic noise!

Great job Village of Justice!  Reminds me of the time when someone running for the school board was politicking for re-election and told me he could get my street re-paved, yeah-right! 

In case you read this and don't wanna click the link to view these data.  Loudest day of this year was 59dB and the low was 36dB and the sound level that I and several neighbors remember was about 40dB for up until a few years ago.


Here is that link:

Traffic noise levels in the Village of Justice

Fustration.... The Village of Justice in Illinois needs to wake up!

I must be the only one in the entire Village of Justice that keeps track of noise levels.  Talked to even more neighbors that believe the noise levels have increased dramatically over the last few years (they brought it up).  I explained my day job and the project I've been doing, recording traffic noise daily, and we fascinated. It has been amazing how many times I talk to even random neighbors and they mention the traffic noise in the Village.  Sometime the levels of noise are INSANE at Commissioner's Park but hey, it's more important to fine people who walk dogs there than to start some program to reduce the traffic noise (I've recorded 70dB on two occasions at the park).




I took this from: http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-levelchange.htm

Level change	Volume Loudness	Voltage Sound pressure	Acoustic Power Sound Intensity
+60 dB	64	1000	1000000
+50 dB	32	316	100000
+40 dB	16	100	10000
+30 dB	8	31.6	1000
+20 dB	4	10	100
+10 dB	2.0 = double	3.16 = √10	10
+6 dB	1.52 times	2.0 = double	4.0
+3 dB	1.23 times	1.414 times = √2	2.0 = double
- - - - ±0 dB - - - -	- - - - 1.0 - - - - - - -	- - - - 1.0 - - - - - - -	- - - - 1.0 - - - - -
−3 dB	0.816 times	0.707 times	0.5 = half
−6 dB	0.660 times	0.5 = half	0.25
−10 dB	0.5 = half	0.316	0.1
−20 dB	1/4 = 0.25	0.100	0.01
−30 dB	0.125	0.0316	0.001

56 dB traffic noise before 6am on November 2nd 2015

Very high level of traffic noise (No train, No Local Cars driving, No Plane Noise and No Rain) In this 200+ day project of recording sound levels in the Village of Justice, IL. As what could be considered par for the course- the noise is coming from the I-294 direction with only light traffic on Archer rd.  Hard to make light on the subject when one can remember a time that traffic noise was not an issue.



Record of traffic noise