#285 Noise Control

At the local and state level, demanding funding for repairs and improvement to outdated transit infrastructure will greatly reduce the noise caused by trains, cars, and trucks. Urban-planning approaches to [1] noise on a city-by-city basis can be as simple as taking a single lane away from cars and giving it to bicycles, people, or green space. Improving, expanding, and properly funding public transit removes cars from the road, both reducing the sound they [2] and replacing it with quieter options like trams and high-speed light-rail. In architecture, acoustics should play a greater [3] in all structures, from mundane apartment buildings to the grandest art museums. Noise control should be a consideration from the very first planning stage, [4] than tacked on as an afterthought.