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I spent a couple of years living next to a main road. Not a highway, but one of the main routes into London from the south east. The noise was terrible. It was
by leoedin 5y ago
I spent a couple of years living next to a main road. Not a highway, but one of the main routes into London from the south east.
The noise was terrible. It wasn't even that the road was particularly constantly busy, but because it was the "main" road there was always vehicles. And motorbikes. Motorbikes were the worst, by far. Being woken suddenly every hour by someone on a motorbike revving their engine wears down on you night by night.
- black_puppydog 5y agoLiving in a very walkable old-inner-city I have essentially zero cars going through the neighbourhood, especially at night. But motorbike and scooters (!) are able to go through and a single scooter is easily able to eradicate cumulative hours of sleep throughout the neighbourhood within seconds. How these things have not been regulated out of existence by now is beyond me. The only silver lining is that I see more and more electric scooters. As they're starting to make economic sense I hope that the others will phase out, but the old ones will have to be removed by force (of law) or they'll keep ruining people's health (air & sleep) for decades...
- leoedin 5y agoI think once electric motorbikes are a bit more viable, internal combustion ones should be banned. I'm sure there's plenty of responsible bike owners, but the bad eggs are _really_ bad. They're so incredibly antisocial in urban environments (and rural too - at my parents house in the mountains you can hear them racing up and down the roads a couple of miles away).
- black_puppydog 5y agoYeah, I remember a midnight trip to the fort towering over Grenoble. You can see the whole town from 1.1km above and a few km away. Everything was so calm and quiet from up there... until WRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! a scooter cut through the night. :|