Articles like these always bring out suburbanites who point out that cities are loud and you need to deal with it if your are in the city. But most city noise i

Articles like these always bring out suburbanites who point out that cities are loud and you need to deal with it if your are in the city. But most city noise is vehicles and it's quite amazing when you get a chance to realize this (for example when a normally busy street is made pedestrian-only for a weekend). And sometimes you don't realize how life-alteringly noisy a particular street is until you move there. I have 2 examples. Near Cambie street bridge in Vancouver can be extremely loud at night. Normal traffic noise during the day. But there's a traffic light followed by a bridge which is slightly uphill, which I guess is an invitation for people in loud cars to burn out when the light turns green in the middle of the night. In Tokyo I lived on a very-quiet looking side street, it was nearby a Domino's and parallel to another small street, just large enough to have a traffic light. So my short street had a loud scooter accelerating into and out of it every few minutes to bypass the traffic light. These sorts of things aren't noticeable when you just visit a city but are absolute hell if you end up living nearby. The first example at least would be a good candidate for a noise camera.