Car Honking and unnecessary noise in Downtown Toronto

[lawyerman]

Hello Everyone,

I live in the heart of downtown Toronto and I absolutely love it. The one thing that sets me off (rarely) is that it seems that the people that don't live in the downtown area are usually the ones honking their car horn excessively. I wonder sometimes if these people see these buildings and think that they are only office buildings. Hint: People actually live in some of them. This usually happens more on weekends when we have all the young suburbanites flock to the city and have some fun and I certainly hope they have a great time but people screaming and honking their horn unnecessarily is really a lack of respect for everyone around them. That's if they are aware that people do actually live down here.

Just a rant.

 

[papasmerf]

water ballons with paint in them might discourage the horn

 

[lawyerman]

Sounds great.

 

[papasmerf]

Sounds great.

wear surgical gloves when you make them and toss 3 at a time.


I have a stunad with a base box on the trunk that is pissing me off.............will have to do tjat one on one

 

[CUTTERBUCK]

Car horns honking

If you think car horn honking in Toronto is bad, you should try driving in Santiago or Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. In order to get from point A to point B, your horn MUST work.

 

[lawyerman]

Good point about the Dominican Republic among other countries as well. There are people honking their horns as we speak and it is Sunday morning with NO traffic. Do you live in downtown Toronto?

I was talking about TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA.

 

[CUTTERBUCK]

Good point about the Dominican Republic among other countries as well. There are people honking their horns as we speak and it is Sunday morning with NO traffic. Do you live in downtown Toronto?

I was talking about TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA.

Nope, I live in K/W, no horns honking here, nice and peaceful. ahhh, the sound of silence.

 

[lawyerman]

Nope, I live in K/W, no horns honking here, nice and peaceful. ahhh, the sound of silence.

Cheers. K/W is a very nice area.

Even though I really enjoyed living in the GTA and outskirts but the convenience and time not wasted driving in and out of the city has been an absolute gift.

 

[Bobzilla]

If you think car horn honking in Toronto is bad, you should try driving in Santiago or Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. In order to get from point A to point B, your horn MUST work.

ANY Latin American country is the same way...whenever I come back from Costa Rica, I'm always struck by the lack of car horns honking.

 

[mac]

I can't beieve that I am reading and responding to this worthless thread.

 

[shack]

The one thing that sets me off (rarely) is that it seems that the people that don't live in the downtown area are usually the ones honking their car horn excessively.

Just a rant.

Not to take away from the aggravation of the noise, but just how are you able to determine so assuredly the breakdown of how many downtowners vs. non-downtowners are doing the honking?

 

[Jade4u]

Worse than car honking is those frigging loud vehicles or motorcycles that people have. They just love coming along speeding with thier loud VVVVRRRRMMM VRRRRRRRRR sounds and startling babies out of thier sleep. Yes sometimes it seems you have a moody baby and you know that a two minute walk in the stroller outside will put the infant right to sleep when all else fails and you get outside and some driver sees a stroller (so sometimes it appears) then they honk thier horns or have thier music waay too loud. The baby is now immune to the sounds of horns and music but those damned noise polluting vehicles should be outlawed. There is no such thing as getting out for a quiet walk sometimes.

 

[hunter001]

I live in the heart of downtown Toronto and I absolutely love it. The one thing that sets me off (rarely) is that it seems that the people that don't live in the downtown area are usually the ones honking their car horn excessively.

How can you tell where someone is from by the way the honk their car horn?

Edit:I didn't read shack post before asking...lol

 

[RTRD]

Oh sweet geezus...

Worse than car honking is those frigging loud vehicles or motorcycles that people have. They just love coming along speeding with thier loud VVVVRRRRMMM VRRRRRRRRR sounds and startling babies out of thier sleep. Yes sometimes it seems you have a moody baby and you know that a two minute walk in the stroller outside will put the infant right to sleep when all else fails and you get outside and some driver sees a stroller (so sometimes it appears) then they honk thier horns or have thier music waay too loud. The baby is now immune to the sounds of horns and music but those damned noise polluting vehicles should be outlawed. There is no such thing as getting out for a quiet walk sometimes.

..you speak NOTHING but truth!!

The fucking motorcycles with their loud pipes driven by prick with tiny dicks drive me INSANE!!!

There is a guy who lives around the corner from me who has a something..the size of horse..with loud pipes. He just LOVES to race the engine whenever he drives past the bar patio across the street from me...I guess he thinks he is making all the chicks wet....but based on the reaction of someone I was out with a few weeks ago (we were having a nice little conversation when he goes by...she rolled her eyes while I just looked and grimaced...which I followed by the universal "little dick" hand signal, which made her giggle...)

I swear you can hear that thing coming and going for a couple blocks...and I live on the fifth floor!!

Between the fire alarms...

(no lie...SIX times on Friday night between 6pm and 10pm...I finally called and was told the technician was doing so repair work on it),

the dogs...

(guy, covered in tattoos, gets on the elevator the other day with me and my kid...he has a pit bull...I am just praying to God nothing happens in this small confined space with me having a helpless 5 year old in tow...what is the point of owning a dog like that in a CONDO BUILDING downtown??)

...the ENDLESS construction...

(no lie...there are THREE new condos going up within a block of me...as in you can see each from the other...with two more planned just a half a block further in each direction)

...and the motorcycles (not to mention the fucking idiots on bicycles), I might soon find myself back in the burbs. I moved to the city thinking it would be easier to score booty here versus Oakville, but hell, it seems that 95% of the women I hook up with are home owning suburbanites anyway....

 

[drlove]

I know exactly what you mean... Some idiot was out there honking his car horn the other night at 4:30AM!! Woke me up from a sound sleep - Ridiculous... I really wish there would have been a cop nearby that was willing to enforce the noise by-law. Unfortunately, excessive noise is the price we pay for living downtown.

 

[basketcase]

I much rather a little honking vs stereo set to full with bad speakers...if you're gonna blast your music might as well have a decent setup so people can hear a clean sound vs rattling

That's what gets me as well (and the traffic light always seem to take a lot longer in the middle of the night).

 

[goodtime]

To layerman's point, NYC enacted a law for horn blowing within Manhattan. Several locals I spoke to said it made a big difference. I was there just last week and frankly, there was still allot of horn blowing going on.

It stopped after 911 but resume in late '06. There's $500 fine for honking horn at upper East side.