Ich bin in einer Gegend aufgewachsen, die für Motorräder bekannt ist, und ich glaube, dass die Leute am Wochenende etwas Spaß haben sollten … aber nachdem ich auf das „ruhige“ Land gezogen bin, gibt es fast jedes Wochenende eine ununterbrochene Parade lauter Motorräder.
Ab 2025 scheint es rechtliche Anstrengungen zu geben, dies zu stoppen:
„Wer jetzt beim Verursachen von vermeidbarem Fahrzeuglärm erwischt wird, dem drohen Bussen bis zu 10’000 Franken. Zudem können kleine Verstöße, wie zum Beispiel das unnötige Laufenlassen des Motors, mit Bussen von 80 Franken geahndet werden. Diese gab es vor dem 1. Januar 2025, betrugen aber 60 Franken.“
Aber es sieht so aus, als würde das überhaupt nicht passieren?
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Obwohl ich damit klarkommen kann, denke ich an die Tierwelt oder an Familien mit kleinen Kindern und wie beunruhigend es für sie sein muss. Manchmal kann man das Geräusch spüren, es ist so laut …
https://lenews.ch/2025/01/17/switzerlands-strict-new-road-noise-rules-active/
Von CaughtALiteSneez
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They started to use noise radars…
I hope it will help mountain passes and valleys around them because those moto assholes ride the passes for fun back and forth, farting and producing the noise, gathering at the top and bragging their fancy motorbikes. Gosh, I wish they are banned entirely in such places.
Sounds very hard to enforce to be honest and I assume there will be a lot of arguing about what exactly is avoidable. People will claim that they have to rev the engine at the traffic light to keep it running and bullshit like that.
I’d much rather see legal noise limits of vehicles reduced in general (at the very least for new vehicles). There are no technical reasons forcing normal vehicles to be loud these days.
There is a „biker bar“ not too far from where I live and these pissheads regularly, legally drive home through the middle of the town in the middle of the night with their ultra loud motorbikes (choppers and cross/enduros/supermotos being by far the worst offenders).
It‘s illegal to be on the phone while participating in traffic. I commute on a motorcycle daily and I spend an average of 30 minutes on the road. During that time I see 1-2 infractions daily for years. I reached out to the authorities to find out why they do not take more action against it and the surprising answer was that it‘s hardly impossible to get a conviction even if a police officer witnessed. This will happen with the new noise law too. The loudest motorcycles in my area are ridden by middle aged lawyers and entrepreneurs. They have the money and the connections to impeach any case as long as they want. A few kids will get a fine, some foreign workers who move to the neighborhood and warm up their motorcycle as they are used from where they come from and some spectacular cases where expensive motorcycles from tourists will be fined but I fear it will not have the outcome everybody expects.
Love me some vroom vroom 💁🏻♀️❤️ it’s summer leave people alone!
In cities the motorcycle/scooter traffic is gradually becoming electric, so there the solution is in sight. Yes, we could speed it up and vote to ban petrol bikes from city centres, but maybe it isn’t really needed as it’s already happening anyway. A ban is likelier to happen in cities like Paris or London before it happens here though, Switzerland tends to lag behind in these things and prefers to wait and see if it works elsewhere. I predict it will happen in a decade or so though, this transition seems inevitable: various big cities in China have banned petrol bikes for a while, and Vietnam and India are now looking to follow.
But in the countryside, it will be very difficult to get enough support to regulate/restrict the noise and pollution. I’m quite pessimistic about this. Voters in the rural cantons tend to vote against these kinds of regulations, and people from other cantons also specifically go there with their big noisy bikes precisely to avoid city noise regulations. And a federal ban on petrol motorcycles will likely not happen soon either, most Swiss voters live in cities and they seem to be happy to just push all these big Ducati’s and Harley’s to the countryside.
There is a guy that lives on the street behind me in a quiet village, I dunno if he does shift work or what, but he routinely wakes me and my kids up with his unreasonably loud motorcycle at 2am or 5am, time seems to change every couple of months from one to the other.
In my opinion Motorcycle Situation is completely out of control in Switzerland. And while „autoposers“ who can’t behave reasonable are also not OK we have been talking waaaaay too little about motorcycles. I‘ve lived at a road very popular with bikers and now live in a small city and in both places 95% of extreme noise emissions come from motorcylces (if it‘s a dry warm day). Actually it‘s even more than that. Most bikers have zero regard for pedestrians, residents etc. Noise emission of a Harley Davidson or those supermoto (dirt bike with street tires) is absurdly extreme and most riders behave unbelievably ignorant. It‘s absolutely not just a few „black sheep“. Also, it seems like almost nothing is being done about it. It‘s absolute anarchy every single day.
To all noise-loving bikers and car tuners: You think you are so tough, but in fact you are just the manifestation of a very sick society. You have no idea what you are destroying with your primitive behaviour. When I am trying to enjoy a sinking sun against the backdrop of an alpine setting some millions of years old – and some sixteen year olds howl past with motocross bikes and screech their personal insecurities into the hills, my only solace is that humankind will soon be gone.
Loud pipes save lives. 😎