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I used to think like that, but the city I live in has regular no car days that made me change my mind. The first and biggest pollution is the noise. The ambien

I used to think like that, but the city I live in has regular no car days that made me change my mind. The first and biggest pollution is the noise. The ambient car noise has a huge effect on stress level and sleep quality. When you remove the car from the city, it's almost at silent as the countryside. The second is the danger in the street. Your brain registers those big fast moving cars as potential danger to avoid and raises your stress level and makes you want to move away from it. The third one is the space the car take. When you remove the cars you have the opportunity to either make things easier to walk to, or to add parks and greenery. When you remove cars, modern cities are surprisingly empty, much less dense than a village. Then there's the air pollution.

bbatha 3y ago
> When you remove the car from the city, it's almost at silent as the countryside. What do you plan on doing about emergency vehicles and their sirens and construction? Those are by far the biggest sources of noise for me in a city. Normal car traffic is omnipresent but usually has a fairly low ceiling that doesn't go through walls all that much.
- fvdessen 3y ago
  Emergency vehicles sirens only need to be loud because they have to be heard by other drivers in their cars, which are sound proofed to not hear their own noise. Normal car traffic absolutely goes through walls, you think you are used to it, but it actually stresses you quite a lot. Construction work can be an issue indeed
  - digging 3y ago
    > Construction work can be an issue indeed As it is in suburbs too. My parents' house is fairly quiet, until a neighbor is hammering or sawing. And that doesn't even include the loud insanity of lawn mowing in the desert.
pandaman 3y ago
Judging by you mentioning "no car days" you don't live in the US. American cars are very quiet at the city speed. Americans, on the other hand, are not quiet at all. Especially when they are moving by foot in a walkable neighborhood with drinking establishments.

bbatha 3y ago

> When you remove the car from the city, it's almost at silent as the countryside. What do you plan on doing about emergency vehicles and their sirens and construction? Those are by far the biggest sources of noise for me in a city. Normal car traffic is omnipresent but usually has a fairly low ceiling that doesn't go through walls all that much.

fvdessen 3y ago
Emergency vehicles sirens only need to be loud because they have to be heard by other drivers in their cars, which are sound proofed to not hear their own noise. Normal car traffic absolutely goes through walls, you think you are used to it, but it actually stresses you quite a lot. Construction work can be an issue indeed
- digging 3y ago
  > Construction work can be an issue indeed As it is in suburbs too. My parents' house is fairly quiet, until a neighbor is hammering or sawing. And that doesn't even include the loud insanity of lawn mowing in the desert.

pandaman 3y ago

Judging by you mentioning "no car days" you don't live in the US. American cars are very quiet at the city speed. Americans, on the other hand, are not quiet at all. Especially when they are moving by foot in a walkable neighborhood with drinking establishments.