When you're talking about city roads where three hundred trucks sit every hour at the lights outside homes, engines rumbling, the difference will be huge. Also

When you're talking about city roads where three hundred trucks sit every hour at the lights outside homes, engines rumbling, the difference will be huge. Also, tyre noise is high frequency, easily blocked by windows and walls. Engine noise is low frequency, and makes your dishes rattle in the cupboard. Either way, no skin off my nose, the fewer agree with me the lower these properties are priced. A century and a bit ago living on the bank of a canal would have been seen as madness. Now it's desirable.