Anonymous wrote: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.

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.)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They need to be cracking down on bicyclists running through red lights.

Stay bitter

Stay stupid. When you get nailed by an oncoming car it’ll be no one’s fault but your own. Moron.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They need to be cracking down on bicyclists running through red lights.

Stay bitter

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 wrote:Imagine thinking that putting up a sign = “cracking down”.

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.

Imagine thinking that putting up a sign = “cracking down”.

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 wrote:They need to be cracking down on bicyclists running through red lights.

Stay bitter

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

That's illegal. They should write a second ticket for that.

Anonymous wrote:They don't even send police to resond to stationary noise complaints at night.

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).

They don't even send police to resond to stationary noise complaints at night.

Why are there no speed cameras on coleville road almost anywhere? Also, university needs a ton of cameras.

They need to be cracking down on bicyclists running through red lights.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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 wrote: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.

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.

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.