Comments on: New regulation on vehicular road noise comes into effect on Friday

By: expatin paradise

expatin paradise — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 07:10:00 +0000

You may get some enforcement on the highways for egregious cases, but in the hills where I live, I expect to hear the ATVs buzzing around and heavy trucks using their transmissions to slow their vehicles, just as I still see entire unhelmeted families on one moto, illegal headlight and taillight colors, and all the other violations. These fines, compared to most other traffic fines are also a joke.

By: aj seaman

aj seaman — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 14:59:00 +0000

RE. noise: A law requiring bike exhaust pipes to terminate near the riders’ ears would solve two problems: 1. They might think about using mufflers. and 2. Maybe they would not drive like animals.
RE. SHIT: I regularly walk my 4 German shepherds to the park on the same paved road where dozens of horses and hundreds of cows walk daily. I will never pick up, & neither will the ranchers. The greenery along the road is lovely—I’m certain because of the daily fértilizing.

By: Ken Morris

Ken Morris — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 00:07:00 +0000

What, no law against the bratty motorists laying on their horns simply because they’re frustrated by traffic jams?

Maybe in a rewrite of the recent laws dog owners should be obligated to throw the dog shit into the cars of the bratty horn honkers

By: Richard Hennessy

Richard Hennessy — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 23:57:00 +0000

What a JOKE…this country is a JOKE…who are they kidding? Who is going to enforce this? Only if it’s a gringo who just lost his muffler…Now they want to institute fines for not picking up pet feces….LOL….right, that’ll be another Gringo only fineable offense, just like drinking on the beach…only Gringos need be fined…never a Tico !!!!

By: Timothy Williams

Timothy Williams — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 22:36:00 +0000

Precisely why I decided to take the Db comparisons out of the story.

By: Yeims

Yeims — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 22:19:00 +0000

The big buses here have virtually the same motors as the bog trucks, and the buses have jake brakes too, except you never hear them because they have mufflers on the jake brakes. The big trucks are either not required to have the mufflers, or, as in the case of the motorcycles without mufflers, the fact is overlooked.

By: Yeims

Yeims — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 22:15:00 +0000

Hmmm . . . in checking this, it seems there is little agreement. Many sites, such as http://www.arbeits-umweltschutz.tu-berlin.de/fileadmin/abt2/Bilder/Laermschutz/Noise_Thermometer.pdf,
indicate 3 Db is double. Another, http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-levelchange.htm,
says it is ten Db. The most technical source,
http://www.makeitlouder.com/Decibel%20Level%20Chart.txt
shows how it is not all that simple, and that all these answers could be correct, depending on exactly what sound is being measured and in what context.

By: Righty

Righty — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 21:38:00 +0000

As a truck driver with 23 years of road experience, I say that the use of “Jake Brakes” on a flat road are not only unnecessary but harmful. They do it to save on brake wear. However, in the mountains the “Jake Brake” is a necessary evil, no matter how much noise they make.

By: Aitor Xaranga

Aitor Xaranga — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 19:30:00 +0000

Please ensure that you post the first 5 “multados “! This will never happen!

By: Aitor Xaranga

Aitor Xaranga — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 19:28:00 +0000

Good luck with the Harleys!!!