Discovery against excessive cars’s noise is intensifying in Switzerland. Cantons and policies now require that anti-noise radars, many of which have already been tested, be installed. However, the project is blocked at the federal level.
In order to calm the sound heat of certain motorists and to avoid disturbing the tranquility of the inhabitants close to the roads, there is a radar that flashes vehicles not for speeding, but because they are too noisy.
The Federal Office of the Environment has already carried out tests in different cantons, such as in Basel-Campagne, Zurich and Geneva, a city where the test was crowned with success, according to the Confederation.
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Consequently, several cantons, as well as left -wing politicians, are already asking the government to install these devices quickly and lastly.
But the Federal Council pressed the brake pedal: it is impossible to amend these radars, for lack of a federal legal basis.
Discuss obstacles
Last October, the government said they wanted to more effectively sanction the excessive noise of vehicles, for example by prohibiting the unnecessary roar of the engine of a car or a motorcycle.
However, with regard to anti-noise radars, the Federal Council considers that obstacles to the creation of a legal basis must still be discussed, such as the absence of a device which would display in vehicles that the noise limit value has been exceeded, for example.
Contacted by RTS, the Federal Road Office does not indicate an agenda relating to these questions. From now on, the ball is in the camp of Federal Councilor Albert Rösti, called to legislate to allow the effective use of these anti-noise radars.
Radio subject: Valentin Jordil
Web adaptation: Raphaël Dubois
