[derefr]

I'm sitting beside a very, very loud street as I type this. My apartment faces onto a four-lane stroad, that climbs up a hill right in front of my building.

Cars have to throttle up to climb hills. This is also "city driving." People seem to forget that many cities are not flat, but instead are quite hilly, or even mountainous (when a city is built a narrow valley, getting to most places often involves going up or down the sides of the valley.)

Also, it's not just cars. Frequently, semi trucks go by my apartment, hissing and wheezing their pneumatic brakes as they recover them going up the hill, or expend them going down the hill. And this isn't even an arterial road in my city!

And then there are the local motorcycle clubs that use this stroad to caravan together to places...

[blamazon]

Don't forget the car or motorcycle with a modified exhaust screaming by at 2am!