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by Jose Apr 11, 2006 at 06:47 PM
Leafblower noise?? That is apples and oranges. You can knock on your neighbor's door, and you have common interests with your neighbors. Huh? That doesn't stop the noise. And usually the noise is coming from whoever they hired, who aren't going to stop either. And it drones on hour after hour, when one neighbor stops, the other starts. And it's a whine that is very piercing (all the energy is located in a narrow band of the spectrum) so a mile away even at low volume it is annoying. Neighbors who blow leaves basically have the attitude "Its my right to make noise" coupled with the "need" to blow the leaves instead of raking Jose: Many communities have noise ordinances that target boom boxes, harleys with straight pipes, leaf blowers etc. If there is noise that exceeds the community thresholds, you can call the cops. If you started blowing leaves in a suburb at 2 am, I'll bet the cops would show up. If you circle in a Mooney at 1000 feet at 2 am, generating even more noise, there is no penalty. And, the noise maker is completely anonymous. As far as transportation cross subsidies: Yes, every time you cross a NYC bridge in a car, you are subsidizing the subways. They get direct taxpayer subsidies also. But I was talking about direct federal subsidies by transporation mode: roadways are not subsidized measured by federal income (gas taxes) vs outlays. So, I don't think I am being inconsistent. And, I think some modes of transportation should receive tax subsidies as they create a general public good. IMO, GA should not fall into that category because the subsidies are huge, it benefits an extremely small segment of society (unlike most forms of mass transit that virtually everybody has used at some point, and some use regularly), and much of it is not even for transportation, but for recreation. |
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