Whether such regulations are respected is another matter. In many cities and countries around the world, public annoyance with the noise of road traffic has resulted in regulations on the intensity of sound permissible for cars, trucks and motorcycles. Police can then measure the intensity on a sound level meter and offenders can be fined. An increasingly conspicuous problem, however, is that public administrations are reluctant to adhere to the regulations they themselves have set, generally pleading lack of manpower, expertise or the expense of prosecuting offenders in court. Once again the government promised action.
Traffic everywhere is on a colossal upward curve.
Already many of the subtler sounds of nature have been lost to increasing numbers of people. Then we might live in a hi-fi world. At the moment we live in a lo-fi world. Social Complaints A noise need not be at all loud to be disturbing. Think of the dripping tap.