Anti-noise Measures
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From Our Political Correspondent NAEASURES to complement Mr. M. Ernest Marples' recent new regulations to control vehicle noise were proposed to the Government on Tuesday.
They came in the final report of the Wilson Committee on, Noise, whose interim report on vehicle noise a year ago led to the maximum levels for new and old vehicles being announced last month.
Further measures, say the Committee, should include the smoothing of -trafficflows through towns and the development of plant to build by-passes and outer ring roads.
Leaving aside the recommendations about the noise levels of vehicles, which have now been dealt with, another section of the report says that vehicles product their maximum noise when they are accelerating in low gear and thus traffic noise can be much reduced by minimizing the number of times vehicles start and stop.
Members of the Committee who had been to the U.S.A. found that traffic noise there was generally less obtrusive than at home. There were fewer buses and— because of restrictions in the times of deliveries—fewer lorries in the street at peak times.
The Ministry is already considering measures to canalize big-city traffic. Fifty years hence there may be adequate main roads passing underneath buildings with service roads on the surface, and insulated pavements at first-floor level.