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Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition We have previously written about the Belltown Hellcat, a car noisily raced through Seattle’s streets. Now, it’s in the news again. Television station KIRO 7 and other media outlets report that the...
Photo credit: Torsten Dettlaff by Jeanine Botta, MPH, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition In recent weeks, a New York Times feature and ongoing coverage in Seattle’s KOMO News told the story of a Seattle resident who drives a Dodge Charger Hellcat through the city’s...
Photo credit: Helena Lopes by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This report on the Road & Track website, published earlier this month, discusses the effectiveness of New York City’s pilot noise camera program in catching cars with loud exhausts. The...
Photo credit: Mike Bird by Jeanine Botta, MPH, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition In a recent News Tribune "Rules of the Road" column, a reader asked if using a horn to signify that a car is locked is considered misuse of vehicle safety equipment. The reader described...
Photo credit: Chait Goli by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies It seems that noise cameras are catching on. More cities are setting up pilot programs to determine whether...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I wasn’t aware that there’s a website called The War on Cars, but listening to this podcast by conservation scientist and now-author Paul Donald, I realized that the war on cars is also a war on...
Photo credit: Omar Ramadan by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Readers of the Quiet Coalition blog know that Quiet Communities has followed the introduction of noise...
Photo credit: Viktor Mogilat from Pexels by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Loud, noisy vehicles are indeed impacting adversely on the health of residents worldwide....
Photo credit: Liza Summer from Pexels by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies A St. Petersburg, Florida resident, Fred Sherman, is speaking out against the loud bells...