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Things are going from bad to worse on Avenue P, say some beleaguered residents.

The townhouses along this quiet street in Eastway Gardens back onto railway tracks used by Via passenger trains and a giant earthen berm built by the city’s light-rail contractor, Rideau Transit Group.

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On the other side of the berm, which is taller than a two-storey house, is the Belfast Road plant where LRT trains are currently being assembled and where they will ultimately be maintained and stored overnight once the Confederation Line opens sometime next year.

Built to shield the neighbourhood from the noise of the LRT’s sprawling maintenance and storage facility, RTG now plans to tear out the berm and replace it with a wall as part of a $100-million expansion, which is coming far sooner than most people expected.

“I just feel like I’m going to be living in a compound for the rest of the time I’m here and I’m just so disheartened by learning that,” said MJ Beauchamp, who’s lived on Avenue P since 2001.