A Geneva MP is pushing to ban loud cars and motorcycles from city streets at night.
Matthieu Jotterand has submitted a motion at the cantonal parliament, targeting main roads such as Route des Acacias and Boulevard du Pont-d'Arve, where night-time traffic noise can exceed 70 decibels on average.
That is roughly the sound of a vacuum cleaner at full power.
If passed, the motion would close those streets to excessively noisy vehicles after dark.
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