Photo credit: Life Of Pix by Jeanine Botta, MPH, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition John Seabrook’s New Yorker article about branding with acoustic vehicle alert sounds covers some of the details in my recent blog post and earlier article in the Right to Quiet...
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Noisy City lets you see and hear noise pollution in your city
Photo credit: Quintin Gellar by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Two senses informing you about noisy areas in your town are better than one. Do check out, as I did, these...
Work to begin to quiet London’s noisiest line
Photo credit: Alessio Cesario by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The London Northern Line between Camden Town and Euston stations will have work done on its tracks to...
Florida’s new loud music law
Photo credit: Nazly Ahmed 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 Lately, more cities and states across the United States are introducing...
Car noise is killing us
Photo credit: Darya Sannikova by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Car noise is killing us. That’s the title of a post on Planetizen, a website covering urban planning issues. What is planning? Planetizen defines it as “the professional practice and academic...
More proof that noise affects children’s cognitive development
Photo credit: Aleksandar Pasaric by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies “Children who attend schools with more traffic noise show lower cognitive development,” reads the...
Enforcement of noise legislation is key
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...
California may launch a noise camera pilot program
Photo credit: Ignacio Palés by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies With cities like New York, Paris, and London setting up pilot programs to use noise cameras to identify...
Paris aims to curtail vehicle noise
Photo credit: Jeffrey Czum by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies In earlier posts, I informed readers that Paris was pilot testing a camera that could identify drivers and...