WATCH ABOVE: Residents living near the Trudeau Airport have come out saying the noise has become unbearable – but officials disagree. Global’s Tim Sargeant reports.
MONTREAL — A group of residents in Montreal complains the noise levels from airplanes taking off and landing at Trudeau International Airport in Dorval are far too loud.
Recently, they set up nine audio stations to read decibel levels in different parts of the city and they say the results show the numbers are consistently higher than 60 Dbs—the equivalent of a normal conversation.
“It’s very loud. I can tell you we constantly have between 70 and 75 decibels,” Roger Trottier of St-Laurent said.
The concerned citizens want planes to raise the flight angle as they approach the airport and respect the overnight curfew of no flights between 1 a.m. and 7 a.m.
But airport officials counter the audio measurements the citizens used aren’t accurate. They also argue the flight angle of three per cent is the international norm.
Both sides met more than a month ago, but clearly they haven’t resolved their differences.
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