Whatever you think, noise nuisance is starting to become a thing in more and more places. For example, small micropones have recently been placed in Bloemendaal on six houses to measure how many sound passing engines make, according to the Noord-Hollands Dagblad. This data serves to be able to measure heavy engines from the municipality later.
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The tiny micropones are on houses along through roads, where there are many complaints from residents about motorcyclists who open their throttle. Many roads in Bloemendaal, including the Vogelenzangseweg and the Bloemendaalseweg, are popular with (clubs) motorcyclists who drive to the bulbs or the beach.
Berry ten Broeke lives in a house with a sound sensor and says he would like to cooperate with this measurement in the Noord-Hollands Dagblad. Since he went into his home fourteen years ago, he has seen the traffic at least three times busier and, according to him, the noise pollution has risen with the same intensity.
Ten Broeke says he is annoyed by the always passing motorcyclists in front of his house. “Sometimes I sit up in my bed of that noise,” he says in the Dagblad. “I wake up when they open the gas and pull up hard. The sound sometimes goes beyond a hundred decibels.” One engine is not the other, he says when a motorcycle agent passes his door on a BMW. “You’re not bothered by that.”
It is an open door that some engines without DB-Killer produce a deafening sound. Ten Broeke lives fairly close to the road, so that according to him the coffee cups in his living room vibrate on the saucers as a result of that noise. On a weekday about a hundred motorbikes come to him, but on a beautiful summer day at the weekend there can also be a thousand.
“The top days for motorbikes are Friday, Saturday and Sunday. My biggest wish is: please, damp that sound a bit.” Ten Broeke says that it is not only engines that spoil his living pleasure, some car owners can also do something about it. “A Porsche Panemera with a gasoline engine, that is also crazy about it.”
Data collection until October
The data collection with the sound sensors lasts until October, after which the municipality of Bloemendaal receives data to perhaps take the next step to banish noisy engines from (certain parts) of the municipality. The hanging of the sensors comes from an initiative proposal, submitted by councilor Rob Slewe of Independent Bloemendaal. Subsequently, a working group started working on this and the installation of the microphones is another step.
A municipality can have the desire to keep noisy engines, but such a decision does not always hold the court. In De Meije, a ribbon village in the Groene Hart, the judge made short work of such a ban, after the MAG had challenged the prohibition. According to the court, the traffic decision was insufficiently substantiated, after which the engines were welcome again.
The municipality of Bloemendaal tries to be ahead of such a scenario. First, legal advice was collected at a law firm and now data is collected, from, among other things, how great the nuisance is during peak times. Rob Sleewe from Independent Bloemendaal says in the Noord-Hollands Dagblad It concerns factual measurements with certified equipment.
In other municipalities too, residents are bothered by the noise of engines. The Dagblad writes that the municipality of Bergen in Noord-Holland was investigating what can be done against it last year, but concluded that a too thin legal basis is to tackle noisy engines. Digital signs (sound smileys) have been set in Amsterdam to encourage drivers to drive more calmly. If a car or motor produces more than 80 dB, ‘too loud’ appears on these plates in red letters. The capital is also considered to put down noise lash poles.
Source: Noord-Hollands Dagblad
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