We read your article in the Nov. 24 The Roslyn News and felt it did not present all the facts related to the sound barrier wall. The substantial majority of the residents attending the Roslyn Heights Civic Association meeting on Nov. 14 were enthusiastically in favor of having the sound barrier wall completely installed on the north side of the Expressway.

Currently, the people who live close to the LIE are unable to use their back and front yards, due to the tremendous sounds the trucks and cars make on the Expressway. In addition, during the mild weather when the residents' house windows are open, they are exposed to the gases being emitted and the deafening sounds generated by the LIE vehicles. This situation will be magnified when the fourth lane is added to the Expressway.

To appreciate this problem the Transportation Department should arrange to make noise studies in the subject individuals' backyards during various times during the day and night. Also, the three companies who are responsible for the temporary injunction stopping installation of the sound barrier wall, should designate representatives to visit the Roslyn Heights houses in question and experience the very loud sounds the residents are faced with.

It should be noted that the complete installation of the sound barrier wall will enable the Roslyn Heights residents near the LIE to experience the benefits of peace and quiet that other homeowners take for granted.

Barry Lieberman

Roslyn Heights has been under attack from expanding industry, such as the traffic that flows through our community from the Industrial Park. Another problem is the ever popular restaurants that have been allowed by the Town of North Hempstead to exist without ample parking and screening from unsightly dumpsters.

Now, another attack on our quality of life. After many miles of barrier walls placed along the expressway, the DOT has the audacity to omit the Roslyn Heights community from the benefits of this sound barrier.

The reason cited was: "Noise abatement in the form of sound barriers did not meet the required economic cost-effectiveness criteria."

I don't know how they can state this as Roslyn Heights has more homes per square mile than most of the incorporated villages along the expressway.

I also don't understand why the residents of Roslyn Heights were not shown a model or blueprint of the highway expansion. This would have given us the opportunity to comment on it. All the information we get is after the fact, such as, the wall was stopped from Roslyn Road to the railroad bridge by a lawsuit brought about by three businesses on the service road. How do we find out about the intentions of the DOT regarding the rest of the service road on both sides of the expressway?

Currently in lower Manhattan there is a model of the West Side highway expansion available for public viewing. Where is our model for public viewing?

I'll guarantee you that you will hear the new eight lane super highway, going through your backyard, as far north as Warner Avenue.

If Roslyn Heights ever needed help from our politicians, it is now. As a resident of Roslyn Heights, I am appealing to Senator Michael Balboni to come to our aid so that we don't get stone-walled by the DOT.

Chris W. Cavaliere

I am writing this letter in response to the article on the LIE sound barrier wall. First of all, may I say that the title of your article was quite misleading. There have been very few explanations of anything at all. As a resident of Jefferson Avenue, a member of the Roslyn Heights Civic Association and a person whom this wall, or lack thereof, will affect. I am surprised at how little information I am given or able to get.

If, perhaps, the powers in charge of this project had made an effort to inform the affected communities beforehand, they would not have so many "headaches" now, i.e., lawsuits, public mistrust, etc. The little information we have been given is that our area (west of the LIRR trestle to Mineola/Willis Avenue), according to their noise abatement criteria, does not "qualify" for a sound barrier wall.

I find it very hard to believe that in the entire length of this project, we are the only mile that does not qualify for a sound barrier wall. How can that be? We have also been told that it is a question of money, a wall in our area is not "cost effective." As everyone knows, money is no object in a project of this magnitude. And if there are areas, such as Old Westbury, that are fighting not to have a wall in their area, then why not take the money allocated for that wall and give this community what it needs and deserves?

Renee R. Wiebe