“Between the four incessantly barking dogs on my block, the subwoofers from the many cars that drive around my area and idle on my street with their subwoofer on blast as they lay on the horn for whoever they are waiting for, as well as my neighbor who has get togethers on the sidewalk directly … Read more
Testimonial Category: Sleep / health (including mental)
“Every night I’m woken up by people blasting music in their car parked on the street. I call the cops and they drive past and do nothing.” — Self-identified Latina resident, Federal Hill
“City ‘noise ambassadors’ might work. Remind late-night people going to their cars that people are sleeping in the neighborhood. A great job for college kids to have.” — Federal Hill resident
West Elmwood
“27% of the respondents at SpeakOuts noted that the ‘noise levels, especially along Broad Street, are too loud. Too much noise is coming from the music at night clubs.’ Also, ‘the noise levels along Highway 95 can be extraordinarily loud’.” — West Elmwood / 02907 Health Equity Zone (HEZ) report, Oct. 2020
Robert Koch
“The day will come when man will have to fight noise as inexorably as cholera and the plague.” — Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist Robert Koch