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OccasionalDucks

People look at me as though I’m mad when I complain about the din of traffic that gets everywhere, even making it hard to hear birdsong on my patch… here is yet another public health reason to -

How our noisy world is seriously damaging our health bbc.com/news/articles/crmjdm2m

James Gallagher holding a sound meter
www.bbc.comNoise: The invisible killer in all our livesThe BBC's James Gallagher investigates the invisible killer all around us.

@OccasionalDucks having an EV which runs quietly has shown me how much noise is generated by the road surface. Concrete awful and the practice of spraying a layer of tar then clippings almost as bad. Yet many surfaces give very low amounts of tyre noise

@John_Loader
Yes, it was really noticeable on the electric pool cars we had in my previous job. One of the many reasons why swapping ICE vehicles out for EVs is not “the” solution.