Re: Rus in urba - should cities be noisy, or should we try and make them peaceful?

FACE <AFaceInTheCrowd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:ia0g64p4ihdvlnnibe8330n66a5kk4tco0@xxxxxxx:

From Dr Quite <quite@xxxxxxxxx>, in uk.politics.misc on Sun, 29 Jun
2008 21:18:00 +0000 (UTC) :

I now live near the Heathrow flight path, and because I... well, like
planes, I don't mind it at all.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/06/25/noise_pollution/index.html

35 years ago, for about a year, I lived under a flight path about a
mile from a busier airport than Heathrow.

I've never been so glad to get out of anywhere in my life.

In the parking lot, if having a conversation and a plane came over
everybody just shut up until it passed. There was no way to talk over
it.

747s etc., were relatively well muffled compared to Lears, etc., which
were little but 3 or 4 times as loud. Passenger planes were so low
that you could see the people through the windows.

FACE


OK, that's a lot closer than I am. Sounds bad.

Incidentally, Heathrow traffic switches off at 11pm and comes back on at
5am. I'm not sure how common that is, but many European airports run
through the night.
.

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