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Seems like one compromise would be that they can only be used during a few-hour period every other week or so. So you'd only get the noise in a predictable wind
by gblargg 1y ago
Seems like one compromise would be that they can only be used during a few-hour period every other week or so. So you'd only get the noise in a predictable window.
- izacus 1y agoThat's just worse than what got voted in though.
- bsder 1y agoIn the US, at least, it doesn't help that almost everyone using leaf blowers are using the cheap, loud, stinky two cycle motor abominations. Those leaf blowers put more garbage into the air than a car or pickup truck. They're that bad.
- unglaublich 1y agoIn Zürich, the worst offender is the outdated two cycle moped. Sadly, not much is being done about it because of the cult and retro status of these things.
- BSDobelix 1y agoAt the Gold-coast the worst offenders are the Bugatti, Lotus and Ferrari leasers...how is it legal to be that loud??
- 1718627440 1y agoIs it? Police do charge vehicle owners that have modified there vehicles, because they are now too loud.
- willvarfar 1y agoPeople have loud motorbikes and cars because they want attention. It seems very fundamentally selfish. I've spent a lot of time in the countryside where there is a motorway in the distance, and the general low rumble road noise seems to be mostly the tires etc. But then sometimes a loud motorbike revs and that really carries and intrudes.
- blargthorwars 1y agoMotorbikes herald a man’s passage unto the alehouse, where he doth hold court and lament, ‘Why must my women always cheat on me?’
- unglaublich 1y agoWhy, quiet but capable alternatives exist. Let's stop with all this outdated combustion technology.
- tchalla 1y agoThere are noise restrictions and quiet time periods in Zurich https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/de/stadtleben/veranstaltungen-und-bewilligungen/laermschutz/gartenarbeiten.html https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/de/stadtleben/veranstaltungen-u...