Summer Nights Ruined?

[SBDJ]

Driving out of Oxford the other day I noticed a banner had been put up in both directions on a bridge over the A40 near the A40/M40 junction that said "Summer nights ruined here due to road noise" or very similar words. These people seriously didn't expect to buy a house near the DC NSL A40 and for it to be silent did they? Surely that would factor into your decision when buying a house?!

I can only presume the people who put banners up like this don't drive or take public transport anywhere so as to not make any noise near anyone elses house - or am I being a bit unreasonable and should be sympathetic to the plight of these poor suffering people?

[Groober]

They could always just move.

[Eric Mc]

Maybe they were aluding to this awful video?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tN5Z6C2FXM

Edited by Eric Mc on Friday 11th September 14:28

[Frederick]

Someone should hang a banner underneath it saying "What do you expect if you move house close to a busy A road you retard?????"

[Carfiend]

Like those morons who moved the Castle Combe and then tried to get the track closed. It was there before you idiots.

[TheCarpetCleaner]

Carfiend said:

Like those morons who moved the Castle Combe and then tried to get the track closed. It was there before you idiots.

I vaguely remember that one of the complained about circuits put out a fake schedule out saying "Racing on days X Y and Z this month", where the place was actually closed on those days.

Apparently, the complaining residents complained about the noise from there, on those days.

Says it all really about the majority of the complainants....

[Neil_H]

Just lean on the horn whenever you pass the sign.

[illmonkey]

Neil_H said:

Just lean on the horn whenever you pass the sign.

I see a PH meet coming up.

100 V8's driving past in a high gear all on their horns, slowly, very slowly.

[Frederick]

TheCarpetCleaner said:

Carfiend said:

Like those morons who moved the Castle Combe and then tried to get the track closed. It was there before you idiots.

I vaguely remember that one of the complained about circuits put out a fake schedule out saying "Racing on days X Y and Z this month", where the place was actually closed on those days.

Apparently, the complaining residents complained about the noise from there, on those days.

Says it all really about the majority of the complainants....

Oh I like that!!

How to discredit numpties in one easy step

[fullbeem]

How do people who live under the flight path to Heathrow, Manchester, Birmingham, Luton cope?

[TheCarpetCleaner]

fullbeem said:

How do people who live under the flight path to Heathrow, Manchester, Birmingham, Luton cope?

They complain a lot, and demand that the runways are shutdown / diverted to some other NIMBY character, who will then complain - and so on and so forth.

[Ozone]

I thought from the title it was to do with the film Grease......

'buuUUut, uughh - those suuuUUUmmmeeeer NiiiiiiiiiiIIIIIIIIggggggghhhhhhtttsss

[Landlord]

Neil_H said:

Just lean on the horn whenever you pass the sign.

I like this - there needs to be a sign saying "Beep your horn if you agree..."

[Mr Sea]

Frederick said:

Someone should hang a banner underneath it saying "What do you expect if you move house close to a busy A road you retard?????"

and then, and then, right....someone should hang a banner under that one too, until no traffic can get through at all, because of all the fkING HANGING BANNERS

[MitchT]

illmonkey said:

100 V8's driving past in a high gear all on their horns, slowly, very slowly.

Or alternately, they could drive past in a low gear for extra noise

[bazking69]

There should be a special word for people who buy a house next to a busy main road or under a flight path of an airport, THEN scream blue murder that it is noisy to anyone who will listen...

[Zippee]

For the ultimate in NIMBY stupidity - http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Squash_cl...

[illmonkey]

MitchT said:

illmonkey said:

100 V8's driving past in a high gear all on their horns, slowly, very slowly.

Or alternately, they could drive past in a low gear for extra noise

Yea, I meant that.

[Dr_Rick]

Similar to the people who turned up at a public exhibition we were running for a motorway widening project in central Scotland. Currently 3 lanes each way, we're widening it to 4 lanes each way. They turned up on the basis of being residents adjacent to the scheme and were complaining about hte excessive noise that would result. Didn't really want to get into an argument over the fact that THEY MOVED NEXT TO THE MOTORWAY!! The motorway has been around for decades, it hasn't just popped into existence overnight. We've also shown that the traffic growth will be minimal and that the widening will result in reduced conjestion so cars / trucks won't be next to their house for nearly as long to make all the noise they're complaining about (and we've done noise tests as well).

Dr Rick (anti-NIMBY unless its in my back yard)

[anonymous-user]

Carfiend said:

Like those morons who moved the Castle Combe and then tried to get the track closed. It was there before you idiots.

Similar situation - A few years ago (Ok about 10) our local nightclub Studio Valbonnes (attached to Skindles Hotel) was shut down.
Skindles had been going a few hundred years and Studio Valboness was very famous back in the day and was frequented by the likes of the Rolling Stones in the 70's.

It was shut down due to noise complaints by the neighbours .... all living in relativly new build houses attached to the side of the nighclub which they had bought, knowing it was there.

WTF do you expect when you move to a house attached to a nightclub!