Summary
Last week, Mark Smith argued that the world had become so noisy that Noise Police were required to turn back the tide. This is what readers had to say.
As Mark Smith notes, with car windows down in warm weather, we are all forced to share the decibels from a minority of selfish drivers. But here is one of those urban mysteries of modern life. I have never heard opera from another car, or a symphony, a piano concerto, a news bulletin or even something vaguely like a tune with discernible lyrics. All I've ever heard is the same monotonous thump, thump, thump. No instruments or vocal, just heavy bass. You hear and feel it coming from a long way off, then booming away into the distance again. What are these people listening to? Is it a special CD only they buy? Is there a radio station I've missed, called Boom Boom FM?See the full content of this document
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The Big Debate: The Noise Police
John McNeil, Helensburgh I empathised greatly with Mark Smith's Big Idea on our noisy country. Although I live close to a moderately busy town centre, I seem to have found a "pocket ...
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