Signed: A Resident Who Loves Quiet
Dear Editors, I have lived in this neighborhood for almost a year now and like it very much. There is only one problem which bothers me greatly: the honking of horns at all hours of the day and night.
Don’t taxi cab drivers realize that it is illegal to blow their horns? Don’t people realize that when they call two or three cab companies and take the first arrival that their neighbors have to listen to the other cabs sit out in front and honk for a fare that has already left? Don’t people realize that when they blow for their friends that all the neighbors hear them, not just their riders?
There are people in this neighborhood who have babies and small children who take daytime naps. There are people who work at night and must sleep during the day. There are also elderly people who must rest. It seems to me that the honking could be cut down if the people who call cabs and have friends pick them up would tell the drivers not to honk. It would also help if riders were ready on time.
We formerly lived in the Loop area in U. City. It was a commercial district and we lived at a major intersection. But it was quieter than our one-way residential street is here! I hate to be crabby and call the police on these disturbers of the peace, but I think it is probably the only way to get tranquility on our streets.
Originally published in The Paper, October 1974.
Read this article in the original newspaper issue.
Original source: SD_Times1974_10.pdf, printed page(s) 2; PDF page(s) 2.
