Did they ban car alarms?
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Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers
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#22> 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…
Have you ever heard about rakes?
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#23Seems like one compromise would be that they can only be used during a few-hour period every other week or so. So you'd only get the noise in a predictable window.
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#24Cool, 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.
Not every inconsiderate person is compensating for something. Some people just have different opinions from you about how to behave in public.
And no, I don't have a loud motorcycle.
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#25Did they ban car alarms?
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#26> 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.
And, IIRC, seems like some places are actually leaving the leafs in the gardens instead of cleaning them, and seems to be beneficial for wildlife and soil.
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#27> 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)
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with leaf blowing, where do people blow their leaves/branches/trash to? to roads? to neighbors? making roads flood by blocking road drainage?
what about all these noise and dust from leaf-blowing? (even not counting all those fuel burning...)
maybe those leaf-blowing promoters are the "arseholes" ?
just rake them, put them in big bags & compost them
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#28> 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?
Looking nice is part of the function
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#29It would be nice if we could solve our problems in a nice and civil way, and to be considerate to one another instead of making things illegal.
But then again, we are talking about a country where in many buildings you are not allowed to shower after 9pm.. Or take out the glass to the recycling on sundays..
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#30> 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?
And how much is to make it look like work, blowing that single leaf up and down the driveway is fooling no one.