With the revelation that work is to be undertaken near to the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham city centre to try and solve the problem of noise caused by trams, residents in Hyson Green – who have previously complained – are up in arms that nothing is being done to sort their noise issues out.
29 year old Khadim Hussain said: “No one lives there [by the Royal Concert Hall]. People must have complained and now they are trying to repair that. Yet people live around here and they are being kept up by the noise of the trams."
He claims that his family are woken at night and early morning as trams pass by the now notoriously noisy junction at Noel Street in Hyson Green. He was offered special blinds to help cut the noise – but declined these as he felt it would make his house look like a prison.
A spokeswoman from the City Council commented: “At the Royal Centre we are filling in the gap [which is what is apparently causing noise] because so few trams were turning we felt it was viable to do this. But at Noel Street, trams are crossing over the lines every five minutes so this is not possible. We are constantly trying to find a way in which we can solve this problem.”
Mr Hussain added: “People talk about the earthquake the other week, but we experience that all the time because the vibration caused by trams crossing the lines goes right under our house."
Source: Nottingham Express Transit