ORR comments on noise near Strategic Road Network
The organisation that oversees National Highways, the Office of Rail and Road has published a comment piece about mitigating noise near the strategic road network. Haydn Gill, the ORR’s Senior Performance Analyst, Highways, writes that an estimated 187,000 people in England live in noise important areas with respect to road noise, with millions more affected. […]
Six-in-10 want ‘noise cameras’ rolled out so drivers of excessively loud vehicles are caught and fined
A new survey suggests drivers want to see cameras that can automatically detect vehicles with illegally loud exhausts or whose engines are revved unnecessarily rolled out across the UK. Six-in-10 drivers (58%) questioned by the RAC said they would be in favour of so-called ‘noise cameras’ being widely used once the findings of the Department […]
Noise camera trials to detect boy racers begin in Great Yarmouth
A new road camera designed to identify and track drivers who break the law by revving engines and using modified exhausts has been installed in Great Yarmouth, as part of a nationwide trial to clampdown on antisocial driving. The trials are part of a £300,000 government-backed competition to tackle noise pollution on some of the […]
