MoCo finally seems to be cracking down on excessive noise
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Anonymous
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I am glad that MoCo seems to finally recognize how disastrous the excessive noise levels are. Two recent news stories:
1. Signs in Veterans Plaza in DTSS make known that there is a noise law, and county officials have said that they will be "equipped with sound measuring devices to check the [decibel] levels." https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2024/06/new-signs-in-veterans-plaza-enforce-silver-spring-noise-ordinance/ 2. Two members on the county council have proposed cameras that photograph cars emitting excessive noise: https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2024/06/hush-your-ride-noise-abatement-cameras-could-come-to-montgomery-county-to-crack-down-on-excessive-car-noise/ I hope they keep up with efforts like this. |
Anonymous
I like the idea of both but I fear that in the second case they are mostly going to capture images of fake paper plates. |
Anonymous
Speed cameras aren't a perfect solution, but there's no doubt that they have slowed traffic. I think this will be similar; it's a step in the right direction (and an acknowledgement that this is a serious issue), but of course, it's not going to be perfect. |
Anonymous
| They need to be cracking down on bicyclists running through red lights. |
Anonymous
| Why are there no speed cameras on coleville road almost anywhere? Also, university needs a ton of cameras. |
Anonymous
| They don't even send police to resond to stationary noise complaints at night. |
Anonymous
This is the problem. Scofflaws will have no problem circumventing monitoring mechanisms, as there is no on-the-ground enforcement behind them that might properly identify them, much less stop them or bring them to task. Meanwhile, ever-increasing monitoring mechanisms are creating a surveillance state. On the one hand, that disproportionately identifies the occasional misstep by generally law-abiding folk (who do not act to hide their identities from monitoring). On the other, it creates a trove of information that can be used by authorities in ways not forseen by our societal norms and legal system, technically within the law but as would be considered a misuse by those having enacted such laws when they were written (and when such surveillance technologies either did not exist or were too expensive/cumbersome/ineffective to be in consideration). |
Anonymous
That's illegal. They should write a second ticket for that. |
Anonymous
Stay bitter |
Anonymous
| I’m at least grateful they installed a speed camera on Wootton parkway. My evenings before bed are much more quiet now. People LOVE to speed down and up Wootton |
Anonymous
| Imagine thinking that putting up a sign = “cracking down”. |
Anonymous
Exactly. The county spent a little money on signs to get residents to stop bothering them. The noise complaints people care about require actual enforcement. |
Anonymous
Sure hope you don’t wind up u see a truck one day because you think red lights and stop signs don’t apply to bicyclists. It would be tragic if you died painfully that way. |
Anonymous
Stay stupid. When you get nailed by an oncoming car it’ll be no one’s fault but your own. Moron. |
Anonymous
I’m flabbergasted someone didn’t shoot this down as “disproportionately affecting certain groups.” Because it will. (Not that I care - I’m all for it.) |