Transport Senator Manja Schreiner (CDU) recently proposed lifting the speed limit on many main roads in Berlin. This is a departure from the previous regulation, according to which a speed limit of 30 km/h applies on 34 main roads. The speed limit was introduced a few years ago to improve air quality and is now to be largely lifted now that this goal has been achieved.
A driving ban for combustion motorbikes through the back door - this is how bikers see the new pilot project in Lower Saxony. This is about noise reduction and only affects motorbikes with a stationary noise level of 90 decibels. However, this affects almost all combustion engines. Not only bikers feel cheated, the hotel industry in the area also sees itself jeopardised by the project.
Stockholm is the first city in Europe to ban combustion engines from part of the city centre with a comprehensive zero-emission zone. After persistent protests prevented such a ban zone in the historic old town of Gamla Stan, the so-called "Low Emission Zone 3" for the city centre is now a done deal.
From this week on, there are some new products to discover in our shop: the sticker "VI" - "EURO VI safe vehicle" and the sticker "L" - "Low noise vehicle" mark vehicles with special rights and help for example at border crossings. For some time now, we have also been offering the "Angles Morts" sticker. This is mandatory in France for marking vehicles with blind spots.
For many motorbike fans, riding on the winding mountain passes of Tyrol is an incomparable experience. But this year, riders of particularly noisy motorbikes will again be confronted with driving bans on certain routes. In this way, the region wants to bring noise pollution under control.
After two years of restricted fireworks, pyro fans can bang again tomorrow on New Year's Eve without restrictions. Unfortunately, this is not always without losses - for people, animals and the environment.
With the planned abolition of the sticker requirement for the city centre, the ban on lorries passing through is also cancelled - with consequences for air and noise levels. Should the city back down and let the driving bans stand?
With this proposal, Berliners hope to reduce noise pollution from tram lines, at least in the most affected neighbourhoods. But so far the BVG and the Senate have only rejected the idea.
Modern speed traps and driving bans against the noisiest motorbikes - This is how French cities and natural areas in Spain plan to significantly reduce annoying noise levels.
For some time now, residents of a railway station in the north of Vienna have been complaining about noisy and smelly diesel locomotives: the trains stand directly in front of a block of flats with their engines running, sometimes for hours, sometimes even for days. Now the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) are reacting.
