FORT WAYNE, IN (Indiana's NewsCenter) --- Former President Ronald Reagan once told Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down that wall", referring to the Berlin Wall.

A handful of Fort Wayne business owners are so frustrated, they are ready to make a similar plea.

The Dupont Road business owners, who run a hotel and other stores, claim sound barriers erected along a section of Interstate 69 near the Dupont Road exit are driving away customers.

The sturdy walls deflect noise generated by heavy trucks and other traffic on the interstate.

But the manager of a Comfort Suites Hotel just off the exit ramp says the barriers block more than sound.

We drove past, and it’s true, you can't see the hotel until you're halfway up the ramp.

Paul Shah believes the Indiana Department of Transportation, or INDOT, should have done more to get the input of nearby property owners.

Paul Shah/Comfort Suites Manager: " They cannot see the hotel anymore, and we were not informed. I was kind of shocked to see that thing built up. Nobody asked us anything. Everything out here was built up after I-69, us, the apartments, everything. Why now with the wall."

There is an apartment complex next to the hotel.

Protecting residences is normally why such sound barriers are put up.

We couldn't reach INDOT for the agency's reasoning behind building them in this case.

A couple years back, business owners on Washington Center road successfully lobbied INDOT to strip out sound barriers they argued were an unwanted nuisance.

But there's no evidence to suggest that's going to take place in the new dispute.

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