E&I and Home Affairs said in May they were going to deal with the issue by prosecuting motorists who had souped up their exhausts on a car or motorbike.
Then they agreed to extend that to include a decibel limit to define noise nuisance – an idea that was driven particularly by then E&I vice-president Adrian Gabriel, who at that time said the exhaust alteration idea was not the way forward, calling it ‘totally unworkable and totally over the top’. Yesterday, Deputy Gabriel delivered the lack of action update in response to a question from Deputy Chris Blin.
He said it was clearly an issue that aggravated the public, referencing a number of emails received, but said the only tangible progress made had been an informal meeting with Home Affairs president Marc Leadbeater. ‘The committees are going to be coming together for a structured meeting to decide the best way forward.’
Progress was going to require data collection to understand the extent of the problem, he said, which would inform any decisions made, and the committees would be using a sound meter, borrowed from Bailiwick Law Enforcement, to carry that out.
The committees said back in May that they wanted to carry out trials before deciding what the decibel limit should be, though some deputies, including Mark Helyar, said the matter was being overcomplicated and that monitoring was unnecessary.
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