Few updates on local newspaper, the law passed easily even if only thanks to majority, part of the opposition didn’t vote, while greens and communists voted no.
The families’ lawyer said that that law isn’t going to change the judge ruling, while Monza’s mayor Faglia auspicates the application of noise reduction measures anyway.
Meanwhile first results of the Arpa noise measurement became available, only one car was over the limit of 110 dB (at the exhaust), but it was a problem with the car rapidly solved, while the noise level in the complainers’ house, even at the highest peak, was under 65 dB (law limit 70 dB).
About that there’s a thing that I consider quite interesting and is a further proof, IMO, that the real motivations of this whole story have little to do with noise and lot more with the usual anti-track campaign.
On last week issue of the local newspaper there was a little article with quotes from the families, again, complaining about the noise during the WTCC races held the previous Sunday. They said : “We had an infernal weekend, we don’t have data but our ears are now sensible enough to measure the noise level and we can definitively say it was over the limit”.
Well, even without considering the fact that measurement show it was well under limit, I can add my personal experience, I was on the Roggia grandstand for both the WTCC races and even the first lap, hence with 30+ cars arriving together, I was able to hear them only in a radius of 150 m more or less, from Roggia braking point till Lesmo entrance and even while cars were passing in front of me, distance 20-25 m, I was able to talk, normally, with people around me without problems. If that’s what they think is an infernal noise I believe there’s no place in this world they would consider quiet enough.
At the moment I don’t know the date of the be next hearing with the judge, I think we have to wait for that to know if the law is enough or if the saga continues.
manchild wrote:
Would Monza have better chances under Prodi than Berlusconi?
Well, difficult to give a precise answer. People against Autodromo are greens, obviously, and the extreme left and in fact, as I said, they voted against the law. They are part, small part, of the Prodi’s coalition hence now part of the national majority, but I doubt that that’s going to make a difference, national government has bigger problems to think about for the next years. Autodromo is more a local issue and the majority in regional government is definitively pro Autodromo.
