Parkway complaints continue
CBC News
Posted: Aug 21, 2012 7:21 AM ET
Last Updated: Aug 21, 2012 10:00 AM ET
Heather Worley said the Ministry of Transportation told her there would be a 300-foot buffer between her home and the road during the Windsor-Essex Parkway Project construction. (CBC)
Some people living in the South Roseland Estates subdivision want the province to offer them buyouts for their houses.
They're surprised to find the Windsor-Essex Parkway Project has turned out to be much closer to their homes than they expected.
The temporary diversion road carrying 401 traffic to the bridge is now just on the other side of a tall cement wall, about 27 metres from the $400,000 homes on Shadetree Court near Howard Avenue and Highway 3.
Heather Worley and her husband Kevin said the Ministry of Transportation told them there would be a 91-metres buffer between them and the road.
"I don't like it at all. I've been trying to tell them the noise is ridiculous, the vibration in my house and the dirt and the dust coming from not just the traffic, but the construction," said Worley.
Worley and her neighbours Shade Stone feel the MTO has misled them.
"I'm concerned with what we're breathing and the quality of life from that point of view and how this is going to affect us in the future and will it be too late," said Stone.
The residents are hoping the MTO will buy their homes, but so far they're being told they don't qualify.
For now the requests are under review and they have a meeting with the MTO on Sept. 19 where officials will present them with a new landscaping plan to try to mitigate the problem.
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