http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/cairo-sound-city.html

(Incongruente nos envía esta noticia…)

Literal:

«We’re not just talking typical city noise,» the article says, «but what scientists here say is more like living inside a factory.»

This is not like London or New York, or even Tehran, another car-clogged Middle Eastern capital. It is literally like living day in and day out with a lawn mower running next to your head, according to scientists with the National Research Center. They spent five years studying noise levels across the city and concluded in a report issued this year that the average noise from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. is 85 decibels, a bit louder than a freight train 15 feet away…

That noise, we’re told, is symptomatic of the fact that Cairo is «an increasingly unmanageable city, crowded far beyond its original capacity» – and the «main culprit is the two million cars, and drivers who jam the city roads every day.» Urban planning and strategic noise control.

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[Image: Cairo, photographed by Nick Leonard].