Cities Aren’t Loud: Cars Are Loud

Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: Urban noise is a common problem, and the vast majority of it is created by motor vehicles. Noise is far too often dismissed as a minor nuisance, rather than the legitimate health issue that it is. The book “Curbing Traffic“ has a chapter about the health impacts of noise pollution. I explore the research in the book, and visit Delft, the city that is highlighted in the book as being a shining example of what can happen when noise pollution is taken seriously. This video explores the problem that farting cars, farting motorcycles, and farting mopeds create in our cities. Curbing Traffic Melissa & Chris Bruntlett Sign up to Nebula and watch ad-free and sponsor-free: Patreon: Twitter: Reddit: One-time donations: NJB Live (my bicycle livestream channel): --- Guidelines for Community Noise World Health Organization Environmental noise European Environment Agency Burden of disease from environmental noise Quantification of healthy life years lost in Europe Calculate decibel level changes Sengpiel Audio Cairo ranked second noisiest city in the world #:~:text=The problem with noise pollution,continuously living inside a factory. Getting Around in Egypt #4: Cairo by Taxi Chris Naunton (YouTube/CC BY) NOISE LEVELS AND THE SOURCES OF NOISE POLLUTION IN KARACHI Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association Karachi in 5 minutes Kashan Ilyas (YouTube/CC BY) The Adverse Effects of Environmental Noise Exposure on Oxidative Stress and Cardiovascular Risk Antioxid Redox Signal The Environmental Quality of City Streets: The Residents’ Viewpoint Journal of the American Institute of Planners (Volume 38, 1972 - Issue 2) Environmental Quality of City Streets: The Residents’ Viewpoint“&pg=PA93#v=onepage&q=“The Environmental Quality of City Streets: The Residents’ Viewpoint“&f=false Weg Geluidhinder ’ Phoenixstraat in Delft, 2004 By - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 Delft Markt 1970s Serc Results of the King Street Transit Pilot Experimental Study for Estimating Capacity of Cycle Lanes NACTO - Designing to Move People Amsterdam Geluidskaart (Noise Map) --- Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:13 Cities are loud 0:36 The noise problem 1:33 Health implications of noise 2:43 How drivers create noise 3:21 Urban noise is not inevitable 4:08 Travel to Delft 4:51 Delft is really quiet 6:01 Reducing car traffic 7:02 Getting away from the noise 7:37 How cars create noise 8:12 Slow the cars 8:33 Quiet asphalt 9:24 Soundproofing 9:39 Delft summary & returning to Amsterdam 10:09 Measuring bicycle noise 11:05 Measuring car noise 11:20 Measuring moped noise 12:00 Measuring motorcycle noise 13:03 Electric vehicles 14:21 Moving people quietly 15:19 Why do we allow this? 15:47 What Amsterdam does about noise 16:17 Final thoughts 16:35 Patreon shout-out 16:47 Outro