What exactly made the theoretical bike not an option instead of the theoretical car?
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Immission, not emission. Generally the regulations deal with noise made by humans and especially their appliances. Also, of course there are exceptions, e.g. for children.
And yes, 35 dB(A) is achieveable. A hospital at night is no place to have a party around. Also nobody will wait for you to run around in high heels to give you a fine. But if you regularly do that in your flat and your neighbor below is sick of it, that might get you in trouble.
Edit: does anyone think downvoting will change those facts? 🤡
Yeah.
This is commonly the case
... outside the US...
Uh... yes? This is commonly the case.
Germany e.g. has maximum noise immission levels of 55 dB(A) during daytime in mixed zoning areas to 35 dB(A) at night in hospital and similar areas...
Points 1-9 are empirically proven effects of noise, none of them are BS. Point 10 is an arbitrary opinion.
Not Italian, but am there frequently and have lots of friends there:
Naturally, it depends on where you are. Some places are frequented by tourists with mobile homes, and those have a higher amount of "casual riders".
But generally speaking, Italy is... let's say not really bike friendly...
For example: At Lake Como, the SS 36 runs along its Eastern Coast. SS stands for "Strada Statale" which is the Italian name for highway, a road where only cars are allowed.
But! At some points the SS36 is the only road since Lake Como is sitting next to mountains, and they only dug a tunnel for the highway. This in turn leads to these parts being demoted from an SS to a regular road, meaning other modes of transport are allowed.
Which of course means you'll find people on road bikes, without any lights, riding in an old and badly illuminated tunnel with cars zooming past them at ~130 km/h 🤡
Now look, I'm not a bus commuter, but I've been riding buses all over Europe and beyond, and I immediately just hold onto anything that's in reach.
As a matter of fact, as long as there's not a visibly old/pregnant/disabled/etc person around, I'll make sure getting a seat no matter what and something to hold onto.
At this point I'm quite certain there's a secret society of bus drivers with chapters all over the world, and their motto is "drive like there's no tomorrow" and they all have "NO FUTURE" tattoed in huge black capital letters on their chests.
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Yeah, that „study“ studies child neglect…
„By age 2 […] those who had spent four or more hours with screens were 4.78 times more likely to have underdeveloped communication skills.“
Wow. Children with no human interaction lacking communication skills, news at eleven.
Probably just a wild boar.
It's almost like everyone would have more space if cars wouldn't eat up 50% of the available space, while public transport and bikes only get 4% and 2%... :O Ö O: .O.
And this is in an area of Berlin where only 13% of trips are taken by car while bikes and public transport account for 32% and 22%.