Malley district, Lausanne, last Thursday evening just before midnight. In a roundabout, a fast-paced car enters, before setting up a draped … and very noisy draping. It’s like almost every evening from 11 p.m., a resident gets annoyed. According to him, this roundabout is frequently used for this kind of maneuver. But since the start of containment in recent days, nighttime noise has increased dramatically, he said.
Also numerous bikers
Authorities have invited motorcycle enthusiasts to leave their bikes in the garage during the Easter weekend. Not for fear of contamination with the coronavirus, but to avoid accidents that would burden hospitals already in great demand by the sick. Motorcycles were numerous on the roads and around certain passes. But as noted by the French-speaking police, in the vast majority of cases, the conduct was correct. In the canton of Neuchtel, a man still recorded 156 km / h instead of 80.
The population remaining mainly at home, the roads are much less frequent than usual and seem to leave free space for those who have the leisure to whirr their car. The phenomenon also seems to occur everywhere. In Meyrin (GE), similar images are circulating on Facebook. In the canton of Appenzell, an 18-year-old young man sent himself into the decor last Saturday, attempting a draping. Aside from the noise pollution and the smell of burnt tires, I think of the people who are awake in the middle of the night and, above all, of the danger that this represents, denounces him the Lausannois, who is thinking with his neighbors to alert the police.
Noise, or sensitivity to noise?
And he wouldn’t be the only one doing it. The various French-speaking police have all drawn the same observation since the start of the semi-containment period. The number of denunciations of citizens explodes. On the Neuchtel side, there is indeed an upward trend for reports of noisy vehicles. The sectors concerned have been identified and our patrols have been made aware of the phenomenon, notes the cantonal police.
On the side of the Vaud police, it is too early to compile statistics. Denunciations of citizens are increasing like everywhere else in Switzerland, but there is no evidence at the moment that it is the nuisances that are increasing, and not the sensitivity or the attention of the population. There is less traffic, fewer trains, fewer planes, and it is possible that this factor influences the fact that nuisances are noticed more often, notes Florence Maillard, spokesman for the cantonal police.
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