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stella40 -> RE: A quieter New York? (6/23/2007 11:09:33 AM)
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I don't see how it's going to make that much difference somehow.
I live in Battersea Park (the edge nearest Central London between Vauxhall and Stockwell), I live less than 2 miles from the centre of London and the noise is constant.
I live directly underneath the main flight path into London's Heathrow Airport so every 3 minutes from 5am to 1am I have a Boeing 747 or a similar sized aeroplane passing overhead. The main railway line into London's Waterloo station is at the end of my street, so there are constant trains and also every 30 minutes Eurostar trains with their characteristic hum. On the other side of the street I have another railway line running into London Victoria from Stewarts Lane depot, most days at 10am they're preparing the steam train for what I assume to be the Orient Express (which apparently still runs). There's a pub at the end of the street, a busy road into Central London. Then there's my neighbours, kids playing outside. Now it's the warmer weather we also have ice cream vans coming round - at least three, so you get three jingles, Looney Tunes, Match of the Day and also (this took me some time to work out) Banana Splits.
There is is a cab driver living in the block who never uses his horn, but there's a lorry driver with a bigger horn who is often using it. You also have the sirens of ambulances and police cars. Oh and I also live across the road from Battersea Dogs Home (two three storey buildings filled with kennels containing dogs and cats) outside which is a bus stop and during the night anyone nearby can set off the dogs barking.
Would such legislation work here where I'm living?
No. Even if Battersea Dogs Home could keep all their dogs quiet (hundreds of them) and you outlawed pub music, and everything else outlined in the article you would still have the planes, trains, traffic, sirens, and so on.
I guess it would be the same in any large city.
I don't understand some people, these people who expect silence whilst living in an apartment in the city.
Why don't these people move to the countryside?
Oh I forgot, it may not be too peaceful in the countryside, what with birds singing, farm animals, tractors, and there are quite a few farmers who have cocks. These wouldn't be people who would welcome being woken up by a cock in the morning.
Maybe legislation isn't the answer. How about earplugs?
Personally I like the noise where I'm living. I meditate and I find jumbo jets flying rhythmically every few minutes to be calming and soothing.
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