'Beyond human endurance': $3.5-million settlement approved in Ville-Marie Expressway class action

Between 1998 and 2000, noise from repair work being done on the Ville-Marie Expressway was so loud, Westmount resident Peter Krantz could sleep only if he had earplugs in. 
The sound of jackhammers breaking concrete was clear enough for Krantz to count how many were being used each night. And that’s only when the so-called “aqua-demolition” machine wasn’t operating, he says, which was so deafening it drowned out the jackhammers.
One night, he had to sleep in his