REDUCTION OF NOISE
CAMPAIGN IN LONDON STANDARD FOR VEHICLES REP LACING TRAM WAY S (British Official Wireless.) Rec 10 a.m. RUGBY, March 22. The Transport Minister, Mr L. Hore-, Belisha, revealed last night that as a result of the work of the committee of experts set up last July, there was every hope of establishing a fixed standard of the maximum permissible noise, to which road vehicles would be obliged to conform. It would be possible for manufacturers to produce vehicles observing the standard and inoffensive to the public. The difficulty in enforcing the present law against excessive noise lay in the absence of any such fixed standard.
He claimed that silent traffic zones at night had been of benefit to the population, without increasing accidents, lie was hoping to further reduce noise by the rapid substitution of trolley vehicles for tramways, and he announced that .the London Transport Board hoped within the next year to make this change on 40 route miles of tramway, more than one-eighth of the total tramway mileage.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18662, 23 March 1935, Page 5
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