Click for a larger version. I've been quietly looking into noise
recently. There was an article back in November in a Danish
newspaper about the negative effect traffic noise has on the
population. A good, informative article stating that 800,000
Danes are exposed to harmful levels of traffic pollution in the
form of noise alone. That's about 15% of the population. The
article goes on about how very little is being done in Danish
cities about reducing traffic noise. 400 million kroner were
earmarked by the current government for noise reduction in 2009
but the government only manages the national roads. They have
spent money on reducing noise on motorways but it's the
municipalities that manage the city streets - along which most
people live, 90% of them in fact - and here there is little
being done. Shockingly so. What didn't really surprise me was
that the article didn't mention anything about speed reduction.
It was all about windows. Classic 'ignoring the bull' talk once
again. Indeed, investing in new, s