Disturbing traffic noise, inside apartment!!

Recently a friend of mine after shifting to a new apartment realized, much to her dismay, that there was too much road/traffic noise coming in her apt bedroom from a busy rd facing her apartment. She spoke to the apartment guys and they told her that the best they could do was to offer her another apartment with a transfer fee charged to her.

Now isn't this something that the apt mgt should take care of, by say offering to soundproof the window or installing extra glass panes outside the windows? It certainly doesn't help being shrugged off saying "No one has ever complained!!!" .....

Nevertheless I was researching on the net the other day and it seems there is a lot of suffering in this area!!! There are whole bunch of products and soundproofing solutions available to those in distress. Understand that it really becomes a big issue the moment its a new home owner, coz the poor fella just shelled out huge sums for getting the condo/house of his dreams and he is unable to sleep due to the sonic booms produced by heavy trucks and similar big engined behemoths.

For her though the sound (am sure) can be muffled using some thick rugs and thick curtains (the blackout curtains are also noise-reduction!) . So the hunt is on and she is now looking for slick looking curtains (and I thought "noise" was the problem not "which design")!!! Ahh, women!! :0)

Here's a couple of sites I forwarded to her:

• http://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Reduce-Noise-Levels-in-Your-Apartment&id=719722
• http://ohmyapt.apartmentratings.com/how-to-reduce-noise.html
• http://apartments.about.com/od/apartmentliving/a/apartmentnoise.htm
• http://living.apartments.com/roommates-neighbors/reducing-the-noise/
• http://www.wikihow.com/Reduce-Noise-Levels-in-Your-Apartment
• http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=507807