Green Bay considers ordinance to clamp down on loud mufflers

That could be very good news Jubal. I have tried almost everything in the book and would be great if they would have jurisdiction here in my area. The problem is that The San Francisco Department of Public Transit is following Laws that have been lobbied for that purpose. They also follow rules established by (FTA), (SFMTA), (MAAC), (PSAC), (CAC), (OSHA) and GOD knows what else. Imagine all these Committees and Agencies dancing around favoring acoustic pollution since 2001. In San Francisco we have the "Sunshine Law" that obligates these Agencies to disclose their information. In 2003 I went to City Hall and asked them for a disclosure and never had a follow up from the person in charge. I have written to Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger , Mayor Gavin Newsom and Board of Supervisors. All these have fallen on deaf ears. I am sure willing to try anything else in the book to stop these people. Last night it was 12:30 AM, just imagine that, someone had arrived at the bus stop and the driver open up an ear splitting beep signal in the middle of the night that sure would had woke me up from deep sleep. The good thing is that for some reason I already had waken a few minutes early on my own to drink some water.

Ps: Hey, check out the voting poll!!! Looks like we are surrounded by polluters.

Stopnoise, I just took a class to assist me in obtaining a contractors license. In the class they gave us a book that told us who had jurisdiction over various things.

Apparently the Department of Environmental Quality or DEQ is in charge of enforcing environmental law, and I wondered if you ever looked into them and what they do to see if their clout could be leveraged for your campaign against noise.

Is noise considered an environmental hazard? How could that be established? How could you get DEQ to go after the noise violators? They can wield incredibly expensive fines.

My idea is to have a special unit out of the SFPD to take care of these issues so we won't need to misuse the 911 System! I have 3/4 of the project designed already but the SFMTA-Muni really keeps me busy towards other direction and because of that I have not being able to take a time to work on finishing it. That is one of the many reasons why The Muni and their acoustic arrogance policy favors crime in the City. There are other ones I can not disclose it here because it is just giving things up to the wrong party.

I'm glad that he might be able to do something about illegal mufflers on bikes. What about cars, too !

Traffic Safety has to do with personal attention plus driving on safe speeds. These people brake every rule on the book reckless endangering everyone in traffic in the name of their false notion of "Liberty and Freedom."

That is their idea of Liberty and Freedom, NOT the United States Constitutional ideals of Liberty and Freedom that were drafted on social responsibility.

Corruption + Corruption + Pollution that equals to Chaos.

Yes, by all means, demand at least street legal. There are so few people who ruin it for everybody else by beind too noisy...they must be lacking attention...take away their loud mufflers and give them some LOVE...

Major Schmitt, give these guys a hug when you take away their loud mufflers...that will make it OK...

God, good. Here where I live (South Texas), loud mufflers are all the rage. It is so annoying when I go walking and they pass me on the street. It makes me sick to hear that damn noise.

Now, This is my kind of Mayor! Why don't we have a Mayor here in San Francisco that can make a stand on this issue that plagues our Streets? Motorcycles and Cars with loud and illegal mufflers makes everyone looks like little poppets. It disrespects citizens, it disrespect the Law, it pollutes the environment, it is a moving corruption of our society. Please, do not be a weak Man like our President Bush, make a stand against it!