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Tackle boy racers by taxing noise pollution
When we first came to Boston, we were struck by the number of boy racers tearing up and down John Adams Way.
A month or so back, we read in the paper about the concerns at their congregating in the ASDA car park.
The other week week it seems, they vandalised the football ground.
And anyone who lives in the High Street/London road area will tell you that they are now the bane of our lives. Up and down, up and down, pointlessly up and down with their go-faster exhausts a testimony to their inadequate testosterone levels.
Up and down they go, impressing themselves in direct proportion to the irritation they cause others. Up and down, as likely as not, with Hi-Fi's sporting sub-woofers and tweeters and head-banging base boomers, literally shaking the very foundations of our homes.
But before we dust off our outrage, let's ask ourselves if we were the same at that age.
Well, no doubt, we would have like to be. In those days though, my parents at least had a great deal more personal authority than some today, and the police, then, would have had society's backing not to accept such humiliations.
What was really different though was the economic factor. We just did not have the resources to fund pretend souped-up cars with fat-head exhausts despite most having jobs and ambitions to focus our minds.
Making the High Street one way, with traffic calming devices, might dampen their spirits a little, but if they have the money for such an expensive hobby, perhaps therein lays the answer.
How about a tax on noise pollution? The noisier the exhaust, the higher the tax on it, tied perhaps to the road fund licence. Then possibly, the money could go towards funding the cure for when they go stone deaf from exposure to their boom boxes, instead of our taxes being squandered on their self inflicted injuries.
Michael Pichel-Juan
PJ's Pie Pub
High Street
Boston
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