Dorval man heads suit against airport noise
A Dorval man is heading a lawsuit against the airport over too many late‑night flights.
Another noise story Sunday: people living near the construction site of the STM’s Bellechasse garage have been coping with the constant backup beeping from vehicles on the site for nearly three years now. They want mitigation.
Blork 13:03 on 2022-08-21 Permalink
I think we’ve discussed this before, but that incessant beeping can really get under your skin and drive you mad, like the thump thump thump in Poe’s Telltale Heart.
Kate 14:46 on 2022-08-21 Permalink
Blork, we have indeed discussed it before.
JaneyB 08:21 on 2022-08-22 Permalink
The beeping…ugh. I hear it in the distance in Verdun basically every working hour. It is truly incessant. The people who make the laws pay no attention to their surroundings from what I can tell. Only an idiot could have authorized the invention of the reverse beep. The politicians, however, allow it to continue. The same is true of the new car headlights, btw. They definitely function like oncoming brights. In city streets, I am effectively blinded while driving. I certainly cannot see pedestrians. How is this allowed?
Recently, I heard the new swish-swish alternative. It’s a vast improvement over the beep. It’s coming…slowly.
Blork 11:15 on 2022-08-22 Permalink
Not just car headlights; even bicycle headlights are blindingly bright these days. People think they’re safer by have a billion-watt flashing LED headlight on the front of their bikes, but when I’m riding along the bike path in the middle of the day, and an approaching bike’s flashing light is so intense I have to look away even as we’re riding towards each other? Not so safe.
Orr 11:45 on 2022-08-24 Permalink
@blork: ‘Visibility is safety” for we vulnerable street users.
Daytime lights solve a real, genuine problem. Drivers simply “don’t see” cyclists.
In my experience, although they are a bit annoying, there are not that many “superbright” ones anyway.
@JaneyB The trick, as we learned in driver’s ed, is when blinded by an oncoming vehicle, is to look down at the lines on the road and maintain your direction. Also: slow down, as the police like to remind us when visibility is reduced. Also, look far ahead and know what you will encounter in the next 30 seconds. All this is covered in Driver’s Ed.
Related to Bellechasse beepbeeping, my partner had a very close call with a driveway snowplow vehicle that did not have a beep-beep, and it still gives me the shivers. E-cars are also quiet, esp at city speeds. They have/soon will have forward-facing warning noises. I noticed the new Lion electric school buses use the montreal metro three-tone chime when starting from a stop. Makes good sense, imo. No big diesel engine that made such a giant noise anymore.