The threshold level for noise is exceeded about a hundred times in one day and planes have also damaged several roofs, according to residents.

Demonstrators who filled the street objected to the fact that the airport has been operating without an environmental feasibility study for nearly two decades. The environmental authorities sanction the noise levels in the area, renewing permits as recently as last year, Népszabadság reports.

The level of noise from the airport increases regularly and governments generally increase the threshold in line with the noise level accretion.

Today the Hungarian threshold is 55 decibels, above the usual 40-45 decibel level which is seen throughout Europe.

Bálint Pázmándi and experts working for the LMP party gauged the noise level at 85 decibels during the press conference.

Authorities measure the average noise pollution, not peaks, which is unacceptable, LMP MP Benedek Sallai said. “It is as if cymbals were sounded every quarter of an hour next to a sleeping man and the authorities had no objections because the level of noise averaged out appeared reasonable,” he argued.

Source: Hungary Around the Clock

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