When you visit Atlanta’s Mozley Park neighborhood and head down Racine Street, you’ll notice historic homes, a daycare and a small community garden as you reach its corner with Gordon Terrace.
But you’ll also find something else: a chain-link fence separating a portion of the neighborhood from eight lanes of roaring interstate traffic.
For nearly three years, a coalition of residents has campaigned for the Georgia Department of Transportation to install noise barriers along their stretch of I-20. So far, residents have drawn attention from local media and politicians with little change, partly due to federal policy.
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