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> My point, I guess, cities, townships, what have you, don’t care about noise. I think the poster was referring to active constituents. But I think you are wr

> My point, I guess, cities, townships, what have you, don’t care about noise. I think the poster was referring to active constituents. But I think you are wrong. I don't know of anybody who wants a loud car or bike trekking by their house. But yet it still happens over and over. It is unclear if enough "active constituents" are not complaining or they are ignored.

cm2187 8y ago
I don't but I know some people are delighted at the sound of some sport cars.
- reaperducer 8y ago
  I don't but I know some people are delighted at the sound of some sport cars. I don't disagree. But in context. On track day at the local race track? Sure. At a professional sporting event? Great. Going down a residential street when people are trying to sleep? No way.
dsfyu404ed 8y ago
I live on a hill with a busy intersection at the bottom. I get to listen to trucks with jake brakes going down the hill and people accelerating out of the intersection. I don't exactly live somewhere high class so vehicles with rusted out exhausts and Civics with fart cans abound. It doesn't bother me one bit. You get used to it. It's people in gated communities and quiet suburban neighborhoods where there is rarely much noise who complain about noise because the baseline amount of noise they experience is so low that every single loud noise is highly noticeable.
- oarsinsync 8y ago
  Unsure why you're being downvoted, but in my experience, this is absolutely correct. When I lived on a busy intersection, the noise level was always there, it just became background. When I lived near a flightpath, the sound of airlines was regularly there, and it also just became background. I now live in a very quiet area, and every passing motorbike is a disturbance. Then again, the other thing that's changed is my age and expectations of life. Whether or not that's related or not, I dunno.
  - SilasX 8y ago
    I've had the opposite experience. I lived in downtown SF. The noise of a loud motorcycle going by is substantively different from the ordinary background noise of city life. Unlike every other noise, you can't e.g. talk while it's going by. There is very good reason to treat it differently from the usual honks and airbrakes.

cm2187 8y ago

I don't but I know some people are delighted at the sound of some sport cars.

reaperducer 8y ago
I don't but I know some people are delighted at the sound of some sport cars. I don't disagree. But in context. On track day at the local race track? Sure. At a professional sporting event? Great. Going down a residential street when people are trying to sleep? No way.

dsfyu404ed 8y ago

I live on a hill with a busy intersection at the bottom. I get to listen to trucks with jake brakes going down the hill and people accelerating out of the intersection. I don't exactly live somewhere high class so vehicles with rusted out exhausts and Civics with fart cans abound. It doesn't bother me one bit. You get used to it. It's people in gated communities and quiet suburban neighborhoods where there is rarely much noise who complain about noise because the baseline amount of noise they experience is so low that every single loud noise is highly noticeable.

oarsinsync 8y ago
Unsure why you're being downvoted, but in my experience, this is absolutely correct. When I lived on a busy intersection, the noise level was always there, it just became background. When I lived near a flightpath, the sound of airlines was regularly there, and it also just became background. I now live in a very quiet area, and every passing motorbike is a disturbance. Then again, the other thing that's changed is my age and expectations of life. Whether or not that's related or not, I dunno.
- SilasX 8y ago
  I've had the opposite experience. I lived in downtown SF. The noise of a loud motorcycle going by is substantively different from the ordinary background noise of city life. Unlike every other noise, you can't e.g. talk while it's going by. There is very good reason to treat it differently from the usual honks and airbrakes.