Road Package Drammen. People's experience of the environment in 1998/1999

In the town of Drammen a major re-routing of the main roads system is being carried out. The Drammen road package will redistribute traffic from central town areas to a new ring road system with several tunnels. In 1998/1999 1484 respondents from several sub-areas of Drammen were interviewed about their opinions of neighbourhood quality and traffic. 18% of the respondents perceive road traffic as highly annoying. Along the national road RV 283 as many as 65% report that they are annoyed with road traffic. In central areas of Bragernes area 69% were annoyed. This is the same type of levels we find in Oslo East along roads with heavy traffic. About 20% of the respondents are highly annoyed by air pollution.