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Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers

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Re: Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers

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Post by KingOfCoders »

NedF wrote: post #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…

Hundreds of years gardening was done without leaf blowers.

People used rakes.

When you work in gardening, you are paid to do so.

If people in Zürich decide to pay more for gardening and reduce noise, it's their decision.

(though quite frankly, from using a rake myself and watching people here use leaf blowers, I'm not sure they are faster in any way)

Re: Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers

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Post by masklinn »

pferde wrote: post #2

Cool, now do loud motorbikes in cities. Those things, several times louder than cars, should be illegal anywhere but on isolated highways.

Switzerland has noise ordnances, and like other traffic related offenses they are aggressively enforced.

Aftermarket mods, revving your engine, or late shifting can net you a cool 5 figures fine.

Re: Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers

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Post by KingOfCoders »

sschueller wrote: post #6
NedF wrote: post #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…

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.

They are paid to do this, they are not paid to check the weather.

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Post by [deleted] »

NedF wrote: post #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…

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Re: Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers

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NedF wrote: post #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…

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Re: Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers

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Post by Denvercoder9 »

NedF wrote: post #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…

> when you work in gardening half the time is cleaning (leaf blowing, hedging and mowing)

How much of this is just to make things look nice, as opposed to actually functional?

Re: Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers

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Post by lelanthran »

NedF wrote: post #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…

You don't need a leaf blower to collect up the leaves in a reasonable time.

We've managed to maintain cities with trees for hundreds of years without leaf blowers, and have owned one I can confirm that it cuts maybe 20% of the time over simply using a rake.

Re: Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers

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Post by naldb »

NedF wrote: post #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…

No, this is democracy in action. People don’t want noise. Antisocial characters will have to deal with it.
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