ST. LOUIS (First Alert 4) - More than 600 people have signed a Change.org online petition calling on MODOT to install sound walls along I-270 between Olive Boulevard and Page Boulevard. The petition was started by residents of the Orchard Lakes subdivision, which is on the east side of I-270.

Lois Arconati has lived in the subdivision since 1976.

“You cannot hear a conversation in my backyard,” she said.

David Clark is the president of the homeowners’ association.

“A complaint from residents has been, what is the HOA going to do about the noise from the highway?” he said.

Residents claim they’ve recorded decibel levels above 100 in the backyard of a home that backs up to the I-270. Some have said the traffic noise level makes it hard to sleep and is making it unpleasant to be out in t

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