Aurora Looks To Muffle Sound Along Orchard Road

An Aurora City Council committee has recommended an intergovernmental agreement between the city and Kane County for an upgraded sound fence along Orchard Road.

The upgraded fence has been “a decade in the making,” according to Ian Wade, of the city’s Engineering Division. During that time, the busy Orchard Road on the far West Side of Aurora has become busier, particularly with more truck traffic.

The agreement for the type of fence is “really unprecedented” for the county and the city, Ald. Carl Franco, 5th Ward, Finance Committee chair, said.

Wade described the fence as something in between the type of wooden fence that is there now and the full Illinois Department of Transportation sound wall used along expressways and interstate roadways.

The idea was to get something that would be significantly better for tamping down the sound along Orchard Road, but would be affordable, Wade said.

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