The Consequences of Airport Noise

Is this country run by people with no sense of balance? Can they stop their rush to come up with ever more stupifying megaprojects long enough to consider the problems and inadequacies of those already started?

2500 years ago Protagoras stated a criterion for all undertakings:

MAN IS THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS

NOT: Super, Mega, Biggest, Greatest; Best, yes, but not as they think it means

Airport noise to cost us Bt2 bn’
Nation Newspaper: Published on Nov 29, 2005

The head of a college close to the new airport said yesterday it would cost around Bt2 billion to make its buildings noise-proof. Rector Kitti Teeraset said the cost would cover the installation of devices to block out noise in all 44 buildings at the King Mongkut Institute of Technology’s Lat Krabang campus to protect students from the sound of aircraft taking off and landing at Suvarnabhumi Airport. The money would be spent on double-layered windows and walls, and noise-absorbing material, he said, at a seminar yesterday.

A group of students said their class had to be abandoned on September 29, when the first aircraft landed at the airport in a test landing. The group said they thought noise levels would certainly affect them on certain courses when studies needed to be done outside.