LEVANGER (Dagbladet): We met family at Hammer Gård, ideally located with views of Hammervatnet in the small village of penny in the municipality of Levanger.

Here, young families have enjoyed it like egg yolks. Until now.

– We fear for the safety of the children!

This is what Siri-Mette Woll (28) told Dagbladet.

Ten years ago, his partner Jon Anders Hammer took over the farm, and a few years later Woll moved to the farm.

Now parents are concerned about the safety of their two daughters, Ellinor (7 months) and Celine (2 years), after the E6 was placed right next to the farm, due to the construction of a new E6 between penny and Kvithammar.

Years of work

Due to work on the new E6 between penny and Kvithammar (Stjørdal), the current E6 route had to be redone in several places. One of the places where traffic is now diverted is in Vassmarka. There, the road was moved to the old route E6 – which ran right beside the young family’s home.

A detour that would last for years to come.

– We’ve been told that the bypass will last for four to five years, said Jon Anders excitedly.

And not a few cars that pass through the farm during the day. According to the National Road Administration’s traffic registration point in Leiråsen, about nine kilometers north of the farm, in June, July and August an average of more than 10,000 vehicles passed there every day this summer, according to Traffic data.

Past in Levanger the first to mention this problem.

– Get ready

Although the young family was used to living on an E6, they had never been disturbed by the noise of traffic on the highway.

However, after the road route change, the situation was completely different, Siri-Mette said.

– You get a little disturbed by the noise.

The roommate nodded, and indicated that they were especially concerned about traffic at night.

– You see the lights well as they pass the roundabout, he said, and pointed at the roundabout on the north side of the farm.

– Discriminatory

– Why birds and not us?

Even though the road is right next to the house wall, no noise protection whatsoever has been installed. According to calculations made by COWI, there should be less traffic noise on the property now than there would be traffic on the regular road. This is what confuses the family.

– We’re thinking of installing a noise meter, to measure how loud the noise actually is, says Jon Anders.

Just a stone’s throw from the property, in the bird tower belonging to the Hammervatnet nature reserve, however, noise shields have been installed.

– It’s a bit annoying that it’s the birds that get the noise shield and not us, Siri-Mette said, before she continued:

– The most important thing for us is to get walls that keep out noise and protect children.

Pedestrian crossing on the wrong side

There are several houses in the area affected by the E6 bypass. These are all on the west side of the E6 – the opposite side of the trail.

There are also no pedestrian crossings along shortcuts that are more than a kilometer long.

– That means you have to cross the street in a pram, says Jon Anders.

The family wanted to see that they could cross the road in the flats on the north and south sides of the farm, where it was clearer to cross the road.

There is one particular thing that the family responds to, namely the contractor (Hæhre) making the road ready to be a bypass for E6.

– They had absolutely no plans to open the guardrail, Siri-Mette said.

After the family and neighboring farms notified the contractor of the problem, part of the fence was removed, so they could not jump over the fence.

Later, the contractor also repaired a large enough opening in the fence, so Jon Anders could cross the road with a tractor.

– Hæhre is very easy to contact, Siri-Mette insists.