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How about don't live in a big fucking city if you don't like a lot of noise?

jacobmoe 8y ago
People who live in big cities are a lot like people who live anywhere - they generally try to fix problems and improve the place they live in. Some noise is inevitable. Excessive noise is a problem that can be fixed.
- rubbingalcohol 8y ago
  Given that the top complaint filed relates to construction noise, I can't imagine a way to fix that unless they don't allow construction. I live near an airport and have neighbors who are always bitching about airplane noise. I'm not sure what they expected when they bought a house next to an airport. Filing these sorts of issues under "user error."
codyb 8y ago
People enjoy discussing potential solutions to problems and weighing the varying contrasting viewpoints presented in other comments. This is a large community filled with engineers, researchers, and folk from all sorts of other interesting backgrounds who like to solve problems. It's only natural that the comments on such an article would include such comments, so I guess my question is, why did you feel the need to post that valueless comment? Did you think GP didn't know he has the freedom to move? Anyways, as for the article, the huge influx of ride sharing vehicles has slowed traffic something like 15% in some parts of Manhattan. The trains are a disaster which they need to fix and expand. I support taxing more heavily ride sharing services as they've already squeaked out of the medalion system and are clogging the roads. I'm not sure how you accomplish. Or limits to the numbers of cars riding around at any given time. Expanding and fixing the MTA is a huge project that should be started immediately. Crippling the nations largest city with a terrible public transit option is death by a thousand cuts for a place like New York. Everytime someone can't get where they want or outright chooses not to the businesses they'd have visite suffer. We should tackle this issue head on and from several angles to encourage the efficient transportation of citizens through the metropolis and allow them some solace at times. Constructions a big one in terms of noise, it just goes on forever too. I'm not sure there's a way to solve that and the city needs a bit more construction to dampen housing prices. If there was a decent way to encourage actually affordable housing developments that'd be fantastic.
- rubbingalcohol 8y ago
  My issue here is that the "problem" as posed is stupid and so all "solutions" are trivial and irrelevant, particularly the suggestion to tax everything until only super rich people can afford to drive. That's the neoliberal fantasy of a "public/private partnership" at its finest.
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CalRobert 8y ago
How about don't live in a big fucking city if you don't like a lot of congestion?
- CalRobert 8y ago
  To clarify, if you care about pleasant motoring and not pleasant walking, the city may not be for you.

People who live in big cities are a lot like people who live anywhere - they generally try to fix problems and improve the place they live in. Some noise is inevitable. Excessive noise is a problem that can be fixed.

rubbingalcohol 8y ago
Given that the top complaint filed relates to construction noise, I can't imagine a way to fix that unless they don't allow construction. I live near an airport and have neighbors who are always bitching about airplane noise. I'm not sure what they expected when they bought a house next to an airport. Filing these sorts of issues under "user error."

codyb 8y ago

People enjoy discussing potential solutions to problems and weighing the varying contrasting viewpoints presented in other comments. This is a large community filled with engineers, researchers, and folk from all sorts of other interesting backgrounds who like to solve problems. It's only natural that the comments on such an article would include such comments, so I guess my question is, why did you feel the need to post that valueless comment? Did you think GP didn't know he has the freedom to move? Anyways, as for the article, the huge influx of ride sharing vehicles has slowed traffic something like 15% in some parts of Manhattan. The trains are a disaster which they need to fix and expand. I support taxing more heavily ride sharing services as they've already squeaked out of the medalion system and are clogging the roads. I'm not sure how you accomplish. Or limits to the numbers of cars riding around at any given time. Expanding and fixing the MTA is a huge project that should be started immediately. Crippling the nations largest city with a terrible public transit option is death by a thousand cuts for a place like New York. Everytime someone can't get where they want or outright chooses not to the businesses they'd have visite suffer. We should tackle this issue head on and from several angles to encourage the efficient transportation of citizens through the metropolis and allow them some solace at times. Constructions a big one in terms of noise, it just goes on forever too. I'm not sure there's a way to solve that and the city needs a bit more construction to dampen housing prices. If there was a decent way to encourage actually affordable housing developments that'd be fantastic.

rubbingalcohol 8y ago
My issue here is that the "problem" as posed is stupid and so all "solutions" are trivial and irrelevant, particularly the suggestion to tax everything until only super rich people can afford to drive. That's the neoliberal fantasy of a "public/private partnership" at its finest.

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CalRobert 8y ago

How about don't live in a big fucking city if you don't like a lot of congestion?

CalRobert 8y ago
To clarify, if you care about pleasant motoring and not pleasant walking, the city may not be for you.