Tuesday, November 21, 2017

The different sources of noise


            The industrial and technological development of urban society is producing an increasing number of devices with higher and higher noise outputs.

  1. Transportation

In New York City noise sources are multiplying rapidly, we assist to a constant increase of transport gears such as trucks, buses cars, aircraft, motorcycles…. Garbage trucks and early hour Jet flights produce noise that signals the beginning of each day. The bad temper of the taxi drivers is legendary. Noise produced from trains trucks is permanent without forgetting the siren of New York Fire Department vehicles and ambulances. By personal experience my first two weeks in my apartment next to Jerome avenue was such a hell, I could not sleep because of the continual noise that the 4 train produce every single two minutes.

  1. People behavior

New York has one of the most active population in the world, making it blurring 24 hours/24. Neighbors’ loud music or television, talking and moving or dragging of furniture, children playing, people shouting on the streets. Sometimes noise that can disturb more is teenagers yelling and running on trains and buses going home from school.

  1. Infrastructures

With the commercial and industrial development, constructions projects are not quiet. Construction companies noise has grown up. Buildings’ construction became one of the noisiest in New York. Employees yelling at the top of the building, use of equipment does not make less noise.


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