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Old 09-27-2009, 02:42 PM
 
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The ambulence and fire engine sirens really are incredibly unnecessarily loud in this city.
They have to be so all the drivers are blasting hip-hip (BOOM!, BOOM!, BOOM!) can hear the sirens.
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Old 09-27-2009, 09:21 PM
 
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I have friends who live in Streeterville and wonder how they put up with all the sirens. Having Northwestern Memorial Hospital right down the street does not help. Though I'm certainly not immune to it, it is much less "siren-y" in the Fulton River District (Canal/Fulton area). What a difference a few blocks can make.
I wonder how it will be when the new Children's Hospital gets its rooftop helipad...

If you live in that area, you just have to accept and adjust to noise. I once worked across the street from a very busy firehouse, and after a year or so I just stopped noticing the sound (though at first I jumped at nearly every alarm response). It made for interesting conference calls.
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Old 09-27-2009, 10:03 PM
 
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They're the exact same volume they are anywhere else. The urban canyons and streetwalls amplify the sound.

You live in the middle of one of the biggest and densest cities in the world. What did you expect, peace and quiet?
Exactly the point, smartass. The volume level necessary to get a drivers attention on a highway driving 65 mph is far different than that in an urban canyon area where the sirens are amplified, making it deafening for anyone at street level.
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Old 09-28-2009, 11:34 AM
 
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I have friends who live in Streeterville and wonder how they put up with all the sirens. Having Northwestern Memorial Hospital right down the street does not help. Though I'm certainly not immune to it, it is much less "siren-y" in the Fulton River District (Canal/Fulton area). What a difference a few blocks can make.
depends where you are ... there's lots of siren traffic on Jefferson heading north from Jackson from our lovely neighborhood firebarn ... Think most of it heads away on Washington or Randolph , though
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Old 09-28-2009, 12:09 PM
 
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Exactly the point, smartass. The volume level necessary to get a drivers attention on a highway driving 65 mph is far different than that in an urban canyon area where the sirens are amplified, making it deafening for anyone at street level.
agree with this. no reason the sirens need to be deafening.
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