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by gblargg 249 days ago
Seems like one compromise would be that they can only be used during a few-hour period every other week or so. So you'd only get the noise in a predictable window.
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In the US, at least, it doesn't help that almost everyone using leaf blowers are using the cheap, loud, stinky two cycle motor abominations.

Those leaf blowers put more garbage into the air than a car or pickup truck. They're that bad.

In Zürich, the worst offender is the outdated two cycle moped. Sadly, not much is being done about it because of the cult and retro status of these things.
At the Gold-coast the worst offenders are the Bugatti, Lotus and Ferrari leasers...how is it legal to be that loud??
People have loud motorbikes and cars because they want attention. It seems very fundamentally selfish.

I've spent a lot of time in the countryside where there is a motorway in the distance, and the general low rumble road noise seems to be mostly the tires etc. But then sometimes a loud motorbike revs and that really carries and intrudes.

Motorbikes herald a man’s passage unto the alehouse, where he doth hold court and lament, ‘Why must my women always cheat on me?’
Is it? Police do charge vehicle owners that have modified there vehicles, because they are now too loud.
Why, quiet but capable alternatives exist. Let's stop with all this outdated combustion technology.
You have to compromise on something to get change through. Realistically this problem will fix itself when electric blowers take over that can be used at any time and realistically work better now.
Why would you need to compromise? The vote passed with a 62% majority.
There are noise restrictions and quiet time periods in Zurich

https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/de/stadtleben/veranstaltungen-u...

That's just worse than what got voted in though.