Transport Min: 90 pct of residents affected by noise pollution at Suvarnabhumi being helped

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Transport Min: 90% of residents affected by noise pollution at Suvarnabhumi Airport being helped

BANGKOK, 13 Jan 2015, (NNT) - Minister of Transport Air Chief Marshal Prajin Janthong has said the measures aimed at helping residents affected by the noise pollution caused by planes at Suvarnabhumi International Airport will soon be implemented.

After meeting with representatives of 75 households living near the airport, the Minister said they asked that the Airport of Thailand purchase their homes and help them relocate, as they have long been affected by the noise caused by airplanes taking off and landing at the airport. Despite living outside of the area under the AOT’s jurisdiction and responsibility as indicated by law, most said the impact could easily be felt.

According to ACM Prajin, he has instructed his deputies to collect all information related to the problems, what the AOT has done so far, and what viable solution it propose to do; the information is to be presented to the meeting next month.

The Minister, however, said 90 % of the complaints had been addressed and that the ministry would dispatch its officials to the location where the complaints originated to collect further information on the issue in order to solve the problems once and for all.


-- NNT 2015-01-13

[HeijoshinCool]

It never ceases to amaze me that telling astronomical whoppers does not cause a loss of Face.

[JOC]

Minister of Transport Air Chief Marshal Prajin Janthong has said the measures aimed at helping residents affected by the noise pollution caused by planes at Suvarnabhumi International Airport will soon be implemented.

For crying out loud (!!) they had almost 10 years to address to problem!!

But soon................................

[Neilly]

After meeting with representatives of 75 households living near the airport, the Minister said they asked that the Airport of Thailand purchase their homes and help them relocate

"Where do you want to relocate to?"

[jaltsc]

"The Minister, however, said 90 % of the complaints had been addressed and that the ministry would dispatch its officials to the location where the complaints originated to collect further information on the issue in order to solve the problems once and for all."

Sounds like the same solution as all the other problems this country has solved. Listen, ignore and pretend nothing is wrong.

What other information does he need? There is more noise than is healthy for human habitation.

How about an "effective" solution. Kicking them all out on the street is a way to "solve' the problem, and much easier than finding new residences at the government's expense..

Edited January 13, 2015 by jaltsc

[ratcatcher]

There was a time some years back when the Thaksin administration was pushing the slick idea of an Aerotropolis, where people could buy homes, minutes from the airport and go shopping at the Airport Mall. I wonder what would have happened to all those people who rushed to buy land around the noisy airport? Have many recent housing developments been completed in this area?

http://www.boi.go.th/tir/issue/200603_15_3/5.htm

[Camelot]

Those who moved to newly-built housing estates in Bang Phli district of Samut Prakan cannot claim to have been been unaware of plans to site Suvarnabhumi international airport there. It's been on the drawing boards since 1962 and plans were being finalised nearly two decades ago.

Did they not realise that a large airport would be noisy?

Many of those demanding compensation seem to be newcomers. Those who were born where the airport is now, or who can trace their ancestry back to Cobra Swamp, deserve compensation; the opportunists hoping to make a fast buck do not.

Edited January 13, 2015 by Camelot

[FangFerang]

Here come the gold-plated earplugs!!

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Suvarnabhumi neighbors ask AOT to help relocate them
By Coconuts Bangkok


ABOVE: Homes sit not far from the end of a runway at Suvarnabhumi Airport. Photo: Google

BANGKOK: -- Eight years after Suvarnabhumi Airport opened, 75 of its residential neighbors have called upon Airports of Thailand to buy their homes and help them relocate.

Air Chief Marshal Prajin Janthong – who also serves as transport minister – said “90 percent” of all complaints had been resolved but said additional measures would be taken to mitigate the noise pollution problems, while falling short of agreeing to buy the landowners out.

Full story: http://bangkok.coconuts.co//2015/01/13/suvarnabhumi-neighbors-ask-aot-help-relocate-them


-- Coconuts Bangkok 2015-01-13

[surangw]

passing discarded ear plugs from the business class flights ?

[jesimps]

Base-heavy amplified music should be what they're looking at. It's a scourge affecting the whole country not just the airport vicinity.

[Kooweerup]

I'm confused. The headline says that residents "Are being Helped" then the story goes on to say that measures to help them will soon be implemented. Are they or aren't they being helped.

How long is a soon?

[Tomtomtom69]

Those who moved to newly-built housing estates in Bang Phli district of Samut Prakan cannot claim to have been been unaware of plans to site Suvarnabhumi international airport there. It's been on the drawing boards since 1962 and plans were being finalised nearly two decades ago.

Did they not realise that a large airport would be noisy?

Many of those demanding compensation seem to be newcomers. Those who were born where the airport is now, or who can trace their ancestry back to Cobra Swamp, deserve compensation; the opportunists hoping to make a fast buck do not.

Good point but why did the government even allow housing developments near the airport?

I mean, OK maybe that wasn't a real question because it's Thailand. Not a country known for quality of life issues like banning night-time flights so that residents of noise affected areas during the day can get some sleep at night.

For some comparison, major international airports such as Sydney, Zurich and Frankfurt all impose bans on most types of night-time flying operations. Even in Sydney, in spite of the fact that if all night-time flights were diverted out over Botany Bay on take-off and all landings would have to come in from the south (as is currently the case for flights leaving between roughly 10pm and 11pm when the curfew sets in, although landings can come from any direction until 11pm) there would be very few households affected by noise - effectively only residents of Kurnell, which sits on a peninsula at the entrance to the Bay and is relatively sparsely populated. Compare this to the many thousands of Bangkok residents affected by aircraft noise from Suvarnabhumi and who don't have the benefit of a curfew.

I'm one of them. Although we live some 20km from the airport, since we are more or less underneath one of the flight paths we do experience a significant amount of noise, even now at 12.56am in the middle of the night when many other airports around the world would have a flight curfew. Landings are barely audible though, since the planes are still quite high up when they pass nearby our property.

But in mass tourism obsessed Thailand you gotta keep 'em coming at all hours of the day and night to boost tourism numbers, even if that means alienating thousands of unfortunate locals?

I never knew that anyone here in Thailand had the guts to complain about such an issue. I thought everyone just beared and accepted it, even if reluctantly. But perhaps if more people knew about their rights, things might actually change for the better here in Thailand, though I wouldn't hold my breath for that under a military government though.

[Keesters]

Pretty sure the noise is lower than I get from 2 neighbors with Harley Davidson motorbikes who return home every night at 2am-4am revving their hogs waking everybody and their dogs.

Also the noise levels in many of the food malls reaches 90-100 dB sometimes, especially if you sit near the kids play area.