I hate how fucking loud cars are, even when they’re being as quiet as they possibly can be. Just the sound of them passing through space and their tires on the road is so fucking loud.
I’m currently sitting in my hammock, at the back of my apartment complex, probably 300yd from the road, behind three 2-story buildings. The road noise is constant and loud. No honking or anything, just tires on pavement at 50mph.
If the personal automobile had never been invented the apartment I live in would be half as far from my work as it currently is and my road would have a lovely quiet street-car running along it instead of stupidly loud rubber tired cars.
I’d be able to walk to work in 20-30 minutes or bike/trolley there in less. And what would I lose? A lot of noise pollution and a machine I have to pay a couple hundred dollars a month to maintain.
Oh here is something related I want to share my frustration about - anti-train NIMBYs living in the suburbs that complain about the noise of HSR. So a train wooshing by a couple times an hour (let's be real - it won't be more frequent than that in America!) Yet they don't bat an eye (or cover an ear?) at the constant loudness of a local highway! These people don't believe anything!!!!!!!!! :agony:
That's a fish not knowing it's wet. Car traffic is so ever present it turns into white noise.
I've got a stroad on one side and a train track running through my backyard. I love the train track. I can sit on my balcony and look at trains and they make a cool noise for a bit andnits done for a while.