Anyone else want to help save Castle Coombe from closure?

There was a chap who complained of the extremely loud noise coming from
the railhead at the second Severn crossing. Environmental health went in
with their noise meters and promptly discovered the motorway was louder.

Or the 'Executive' housing estate next to the freight line who said the
trains were going too fast and making too much noise so a speed
restriction of 30 mph was put in place past the houses.

100 for length trains - which is about 60x 100 ton bogie wagons - would
then slowly go by.

Unfortunately the flaw in the plan was we had to slow down (much banging
of empty wagons) and then take power to keep moving up the slight incline
(3000hp diesel engines) and the added gift of a crossing with a joint
which resulted in the wheel noise at 3am:

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**** 'em.

 

Sadly, it doesn't work like that, necessarily. You will note an
increasing mileage of motorway being fenced with 'sound-deadening'
Rhino fence. New roads tend to be set into earth banks to absorb some
sound and deflect the remainder upwards and away from dwellings.

Airports are slightly different, but any householder within the "60dB
contour" are eligible for funds to fit acoustic double- or
triple-glazing, as well as other sound-deadening or -absorbing
measures: roof linings, for example.

The point is that airports tend to be able to afford this sort of
thing, and they have tens of thousands of customers to pass this onto.
The DofT and railways similarly.

Venues that attract a couple of events a year, or motorsport venues
for which revenue is not enormous, are in a different situation. When
these are the targets for complaints, it can be extremely difficult to
resolve as once the complainants are "sensitised", they are
effectively 'waiting for the noise to start' and as soon as it
finishes, they are on edge 'waiting for it to start again'.

This is why all regs for events now forbid the running of competition
engines before 09:00 for example, and after 18:00, with an enforced
hour off for lunch. Many also suspend for church services and the
like. Palming punters off with free tickets doesn't tend to work as
once they're wound up, they don't want anything to do with motorsport,
even if they were the type to take advantage in the first place.

I used to live about five miles from Oulton Park, and I could hear
events clearly if the wind was in the right quarter, which if often
was. The inhabitants of the nearest villages were all entitled to
free tickets - they had to return an app form, with photos, to obtain
a year's pass. Few did, fewer used them.

Oulton is limited to <thinks> ten Sunday events a year, which is why
all the big events there such as Touring Cars are held over a Bank
Holiday to get maximum use. The remainder have to be Saturdays, which
is most inconvenient for many competitors, but disturbs the residents
less.

I could go on for ever, but best I stop now in case you die of
boredom.

 

<snip interesting stuff>

What those fuckers with noisy bike exhausts? Can we do anything about them?

 

Fortunately not. Not as far as road use goes, anyway. Here and gone
again, see - too transitory to qualify as a Statutory Nuisance.
However, get a closed circuit full of the nasty, noisy bastards - and
away you go.

 

There were 2 dogs on my street when I moved in. Now there are at least
20. And they're mostly greyhounds (galgos) - probably the thickest
creature on the planet. Folks here boast about how many stupid thick
bastard dogs they've got. Fucking peasants.

If one thing drives me out of Spain, it'll be the dogs.

--

Paul.
CBR1100XX SuperBlackbird
BOTAFOT #4
BOTAFOF #30
MRO #24

 

Actually I found it quite interesting, and certainly enlightening.

 

No entiendo.

--

Paul.
CBR1100XX SuperBlackbird
BOTAFOT #4
BOTAFOF #30
MRO #24

 

You sad fucker ;-)

No really - I did that thing for nearly 20 years, and I loved it.
Fascinating, absorbing, frustrating by turns. Attended a lot of good
gigs FOC while waving a noise meter about, too. I really didn't think
that anybody would be interested in it - until it affects them
personally of course, in which case it's a whole new ballgame ...

 

flash says...

As heard in parliament one day:

Q: "Why aren't these riders prosecuted?"

A "It's difficult to tell who they are over the noise from the buses
and trucks"

 

What a fucking *ace* idea for gatecrashing something like
Glastonbury....

 

Well in that case can I just ask anyone with a noisy pipe to throttle back
when they go thru the S bends near my allotment as its starting to piss me
off.

 

In fairness, the noise of the bikes is going to travel a *long* way on a
chilly night.

For a 24 hour race I think a noise limit isn't completley out of line.

 

**** it let it close

and everyone who wants to visit the pichersque village hammer through the
place with a loud pipe

At least the Wiltshires finest will be moved away from the few better bits
of road in the county

 

The thing to do would be to stick up a load of fake planning application
signs around the village, implying that someone like ARC is looking to turn
the place into the biggest gravel pit in the country...

 

"..and in English".

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

You can buy guns easily in Spain, istr.

 

(The Older Gentleman) struggled
to ejaculate:

Didn't need to gatecrash. Access all areas passes: no probs - even
better when freelancing on the promoter's behalf, negotiating with
local EHOs. Playing gamekeeper turned poacher is a right hoot, and an
order of magnitude more profitable.

 

Oh yes. Everyone's got one. Fucking scarey in the shooting season.

--

Paul.
CBR1100XX SuperBlackbird
BOTAFOT #4
BOTAFOF #30
MRO #24

 

Obviously so.

LIMIT - not ban.

Would you like to listen to bikes going round with open pipes at 2am?

 

Or Filton. Muppets who buy houses under the Filton glidepath and then
discover that /aeroplanes fly over their house/. Bless. Wait till they
discover that there's two motorways and the main railway line to Sarf Wales
within a mile or so, and two noocular power stations within half a dozen.
And then they discover that, not only do aeroplanes fly over their house,
they're F-111s armed to the teeth with A-bombs and such, flitting into
Filton for maintenance...