Interesting suggestion: air pollution is not just particles, which governments are concentrating on, but can also be sound waves. Noise pollution is a category of air pollution.
Why it isn’t being dealt with? I suppose we are no longer allowed to discuss it on this dying forum. because it is undoubtably a political question.
I believe Oxford council are currently trialing a system that fines people £50 a time for being noisy in their vehicles. Hopefully we’ll see this rolled out across the country soon as nobody can put up with it any longer!
When we are in a situation in which 999 calls to the police are not being responded to, I can’t see time and resource being given to this, however much it’s a wretched nuisance to all exposed to it. If it could somehow be automatically linked to the ULEZ that might be better for those of you in it, assuming it did act as a deterrent, but obviously not for those of us outside it!
On the local BBC news last night there are monitors put up on the roads (I think in North London registering noise levels, & talk of issuing fines. A bit like speeding fines I suppose.
I wonder if this relates to Anthea Turner’s campaigning efforts which recently were reported as having some progress in Kensington and Chelsea:
Good job. Thats quite encouraging.
Good for Anthea. I note her zippy trousers. I used to wear trousers like that when I was a 16 year old punk rocker. Ah, them were the days !
Yes now I think about it I think it was Kensington, as they were complaining about the Lamborghinis etc & zooped up cars.
But if you live in Kensington, they are hardly going to be driving a Ford Fiesta or such like are they 
There’s someone who races a bright blue flashy convertible car up Kirkdale that makes one hell of a “look at me; I’m a wannabe” racket. Don’t cars have silencers to prevent that kind of thing? Maybe he’s removed it. If the residents of Kensington and Chelsea have to put up with this on a nightly basis and with a whole load of anti social posers, it must be unbearable. So good for Anthea and the residents for standing up to them. I just hope the cars are seized and scrapped, not just the drivers issued with paltry fines that don’t make a dent in their wallets.