Photo credit: Pixabay by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Across the United States, legislative bodies are becoming more aware of the harmful effects of noise on our health and well-being. This is evidenced by the laws that have been introduced to curb
Photo credit: Dirk Kirchner licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Virginia Beach’s City Council, like other City Councils nationally, is considering a noise ordinance that should make it easier for police officers to issue violations. The City Council
Photo credit: Darya Sannikova by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Michael Moynihan, The Irish Examiner, asks “Why is it that noisy people show no consideration for others?” He believes that people too often inflict their noises on others in public settings. He
Photo credit: Markus Spiske by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The New York City Council is taking additional action to limit the excessive noise from the loud motor vehicles that race down the City’s streets subjecting residents to the kinds of noise
Photo credit: Patrick Pelster licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The headline in the print version of the Los Angeles Times is “The party police are watching you,” but the Times is really writing about noise police. Palm Springs has been a getaway location since the early twentieth
Photo credit: Daniel Lobo licensed under CC BY 2.0 by Jan L. Mayes, MSc, Audiologist, Member, The Quiet Coalition Counter-protesters in New Zealand blasted a playlist of “most hated” songs in attempts to disperse anti-government protesters that set up camp outside Parliament. The protesters disrupted nearby homes, schools, and businesses for days. The counter-protest playlist
Photo credit: Sourav Mishra from Pexels by Jan L. Mayes, MSc, Audiologist Boss Magazine has unfortunately shared how to add speaker systems to motorcycles. The idea is to set “a whole different mood” by playing music loud enough to hear over the loud exhaust pipes. There are likely a number of reasons why this is
Photo credit: Viktor Mogilat from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The headline in The Guardian reads “Belgian city puts brakes on deafening drivers by enforcing noise limits,” but I think the brakes are being put on the vehicles. In any event, Ghent, in the Flemish region of Belgium, was having a
Photo credit: Paweł Zdziarski licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, and Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition As readers The Quiet Coalition might remember, I had written earlier about a bill introduced by New York State Senator Andrew Gounardes calling for a noise camera pilot program similar to the
Photo credit: Melvin Grounds has dedicated this photo to the public domain by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, and Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition As he did in June 2020, Mayor de Blasio has again announced a task force to address the “ongoing problem of illegal fireworks.” The number of complaints about illegal
