Tired of hearing loud vehicles at night in Toronto? City staff hope noise radar can put on the brakes
CBC
Toronto city staff are looking into a new way of tackling a problem that's as old as the automobile: excessive vehicle noise that keeps people up at night.
On Monday, city council voted to ask staff to look into the feasibility of installing what's known as noise radar in residential neighbourhoods.
It's a relatively new technology that links microphones calibrated to start recording at a certain noise level, which then trigger a nearby CCTV camera. The cameras, when all is working well, then snap an image of the offending vehicle, whose owner is then ticketed under the municipality's noise bylaw.
But there have been snags in the system in other jurisdictions where it's been tried, including Edmonton and Paris..
Even so, Deputy Mayor Ana Bailao, who brought the idea to council, says she wants to see whether it could work here in Toronto.
"There are different cities doing it. Are they using all the same technology? Is it different technology? Are they getting different results?" she said..
"Can we pilot some of the ones that are being successful somewhere else? That's what I'm looking forward to hear from our staff."
This story is a collaboration between the Investigative Journalism Foundation and CBC Saskatchewan.
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