| Noise pollution (or environmental noise in technical | | | | neighbour you could make as much noise as you |
| areas and venues) is termed as displeasing or | | | | wanted and it wasn’t a problem. Nowadays |
| annoying human or mechanically caused sound that is | | | | basically we have people living on top of each other, |
| or can be described as alien to the environment. I | | | | underneath each other and in fact all over the place |
| guess to most of us the major source of this | | | | and more importantly interfacing with modern day |
| pollution would come from transportation systems, as | | | | technologies in ways that hitherto would have |
| anyone who has tried to hire a car from the main | | | | thought to have been impossible. As such the use of |
| AVIS car rental depot at Heathrow Airport would | | | | the acoustic foam and the noise dampening systems |
| testify to. Based on the perimeter road at Heathrow | | | | are essential. If we take for example the situation in |
| sometimes the noise of landing 747’s can make | | | | many cities nowadays when we have whole |
| it a little difficult explaining to the attendant what | | | | plethoras of modern communication links such as |
| problems you may have had (or not) with the car | | | | underground railway systems, over ground railway |
| you are returning. However before we all start to | | | | systems, modern two-way flyovers and in fact |
| assume that noise pollution is purely something that | | | | transports communications and residential |
| occurs in major cities let us consider the effect of | | | | accommodation right next to each other. Without |
| noise pollution in rural communities. Now noise from | | | | adequate noise reduction systems in place and |
| recreational vehicles has become quite a major issue | | | | incorporated within the structure of the residential |
| with the rural communities. Quad Bikes or All Terrain | | | | and work accommodation than pretty quickly life |
| Vehicles (ATV’s) have become a serious | | | | within these new cities would become pretty |
| problem in the countryside. They have increased | | | | intolerable. As we have said before, enter stage left |
| massively in popularity and are joining the more | | | | acoustic foam. Without these new technologies |
| traditional two wheeled bikes as the vehicle of choice | | | | providing the noise insulation, the quality of life in |
| for off road riding. The bottom line is that we live in | | | | most built up areas would be appalling. At this point it |
| a noisy world and by that I mean not just the sound | | | | becomes pretty obvious to all concerned quite what |
| of cars and traffic etc but the way we live our lives | | | | a debt we owe to noise reduction systems and |
| and perhaps more importantly where we are now | | | | soundproofing in general that quite often mere words |
| living and the density of the accommodation we | | | | on no longer enough. Having lived in the centre of |
| provide ourselves. In the old days when basically all | | | | London and also spent time on the northwest coast |
| you had to worry about was the old cottage in the | | | | of County Donegal in Ireland, when it comes to noise |
| middle of the field 6 miles away from the nearest | | | | pollution I know which one I prefer. |