Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers
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Re: Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers
#2Cool, now do loud motorbikes in cities. Those things, several times louder than cars, should be illegal anywhere but on isolated highways.
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#4> There is also a new restriction for battery-powered models. They may only be used from October to December.
If you want to live in nature and in a city you need the tools to manage it. Cutting the trees down is also a valid solution.
It's the classic arsehole world we have become, people have to be indignant about everything.
For the people who don't create, lazy sloths sitting in their basements, they lash out at those who do.
Trees are a lot of work, when you work in gardening half the time is cleaning (leaf blowing, hedging and mowing) the other half is chopping them down because they are too much work for the owner.
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#5Did they ban car alarms?
Re: Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers
#6> There is also a new restriction for battery-powered models. They may only be used from October to December. If you want to live in nature and in a city you need the tools to manage it. Cutting the trees down is also a valid solution. It's the classic arsehole world we have become, people have to be indignant about everything. For the people who don't create, lazy sloths sitting in their basements, they lash out at…
We had weekly leaf blowing outside our office regardless if it was raining or not by the management staff of other buildings. If you don't pick up what you blew away what is the point? It got really out of hand.
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#7Cool, now do loud motorbikes in cities. Those things, several times louder than cars, should be illegal anywhere but on isolated highways.
100000% Agree.
Here in Germany, I'm convinced the Police simply don't care about motorcycles with modified mufflers. The sound is deafening. In the last decade the noise has gotten worse and worse.
Once one of those small penis motorcycle owners saw that I was covering my three year old child's ears as he passed by, and only then did he put his bike into neutral and walked it by us.
Re: Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers
#8Cool, now do loud motorbikes in cities. Those things, several times louder than cars, should be illegal anywhere but on isolated highways.
Already done. Switzerland is a civilised country.
https://lenews.ch/2025/01/17/switzerlands-strict-new-road-no...
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Re: Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers
#10Cool, now do loud motorbikes in cities. Those things, several times louder than cars, should be illegal anywhere but on isolated highways.
The laws exist, the issue is enforcement. Usually the police has to first find suspicion, then take your car to a garage and determine with accuracy that it is too loud. Automatic enforcement is coming soon.
Zürich is testing "Lärmeblitzer"[1] which they want to put in certain places where people produce excessive noise with their vehicles. It will take time however as laws need to be changed to allow such devices to issue fines and they need to make sure the false positive rate is low enough.
[1] https://www.20min.ch/story/pilotversuch-wegen-autoposern-sta...