Despite his repeated complaints, a noise measuring meter was only recently installed and is yet to be reviewed.
The Public Transport Authority has told residents noise testing will be carried out again at 18 months. But a suitable noise mitigation measure, if required, won’t be implemented until that monitoring has taken place.
“For us to wait three months to 18 months … this should already have been done. They should already understand the impacts on people,” Cooper said.
Transport Minister Rita Saffioti said she regretted what was going on and apologised for the disruption.
But Cooper is not satisfied.
“An apology isn’t going to cut though it for people who are being woken up repeatedly in the early hours of the morning because of light and sound from that level crossing.”
Prior to the opening business owner Kevin Bartholomew said local residents were very concerned that there would be major incidents on the busy intersection.
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