Comment Re: Hopefully this gows (Score 1) 167
Whilst I'm sure examples of this exist, it goes the other way too.
I used to live somewhere that F1 teams started testing on a disused air strip. It was used occasionally for some motor sport previously but was inaudible outside of its immediate environs. When F1 teams moved in, areas that had been peaceful for decades (since the site strip was last used in WW2) were suddenly subject to a lot of noise - villages and urban areas miles and miles away from the site.
It's not just the immediate surroundings of a race track for just the duration of the events that suffer at the hands of noise pollution caused by motor racing.
This is an article I quickly googled, but it was going on for years- http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/new...