Sheryl Beaufield-Arthurs says she has put up with construction on the Turcot Interchange, on the corner of Girouard and Saint-Jacques streets, for a year already.
Wednesday night, she said she snapped because the noise was just too much.
“There’s constantly the brakes, the revving of the engine, the beeping back to back up – just a lot, a lot of noise,” she told Global News.
Beaufield-Arthurs insists that while she realizes the work is necessary, she feels Quebec’s transport ministry isn’t taking her complaints seriously.
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She argues the ministry isn’t doing its part to inform residents like her about the construction situation.
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“It rattled the house,” she said of the noise.
Complaints about Turcot construction are nothing new.
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“They didn’t realize how close their working to residents here,” explained city councillor Peter McQueen.
“This is closer than anywhere down in the Sud-Ouest.”
A water main broke recently, and a local upholstery business launched a class-action campaign to sue the provincial government after he said his business slowed to a trickle.
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Beaufield-Arthurs insists the situation just keeps getting worse.
In other areas of the construction site, officials have tried to curb the noise by equipping trucks with a “flat” and is less obtrusive siren when vehicles are backing up.
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Beaufield-Arthurs said officials should consider doing the same for her neighbourhood now that it is part of a 24-hour construction cycle.
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Construction on the Turcot Interchange is slated to continue until summer 2018.
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