In Northern Palm Beach County, Florida's Turnpike and adjacent I-95 combine for as many as fourteen lanes of traffic creating a currently unacceptable level of noise pollution at all hours of the day. As an increase in people moving to the State of Florida has reinstated the process of adding new lanes to the FL Turnpike, Martin County as well as Palm Beach County's Jupiter and Palm Beach Gardens neighborhoods that border Florida's Turnpike demand that sound walls be included in any new Turnpike expansion plans bordering our communities without which traffic noise will far exceeds levels which can have serious health and welfare impacts.  Florida's Turnpike Enterprise approved sound walls for this area the last time an expansion was planned. As both the noise level and population density has increased, we require that any new expansion project for Florida’s Turnpike comply with FL Statute 335.17 and include sound walls.

Florida statute 335.17 requires that the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) must look at sound abatement as part of any highway project that will add capacity “to help protect the public health, welfare and livability” of the community. Please sign our Change.Org petition to let Florida's Turnpike Enterprise (FTE), a business unit of the FDOT, know that we need them to build Sound Walls to protect our residents' health, wellbeing, and property values.  Thank you for your support.