Most people think that the walls alongside highways, often made of concrete, brick, or wood, are for crash safety or privacy. But those walls were actually constructed for noise reduction.
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Here's the surprising reason highways have those concrete walls alongside them
Those walls were actually constructed for noise reduction. A wall higher than the average person can lower sound by five decibels.
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