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Cuenca, noise & pollution?

jakbeau

Hello everyone,

First, thank you to the folks who answered my post about elevation.  Robbie, you were particularly helpful!

As you all can imagine, I've been reading lots of Ecuador blogs.  One in particular, "Living in Loja", has been quite enjoyable. I believe one of the regulars on this forum recommended it and that's the way I found it.

Lori, the writer of the blog, remarks on the pollution in Ecuadorean cities because of diesel buses.  Of course, in my imagination, Cuenca is high above the clouds and pristine (!), so I'd appreciate comments on diesel buses and walking in your experience.

I'm fairly sure Lori is referring to the Ecuardorean propensity to party regarding noise levels.  One expat commented that he used ear plugs the first few weeks he was there.  So, any insight on noise levels is appreciated as well!

Thank you for responding.  Your experience is invaluable.

Jackie in Louisville, Ky.

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cccmedia

Too loud in Cuenca... this could be the answer.


This thread was titled with the worlds noise

and Cuenca, although noise was barely

mentioned before the thread went moribund

over 12 years ago.


Now we revive it, as there's a move in

the city council to fine musical gas trucks

and other violators of a 2017 noise ordinance.


Musical-trucks owners and other noise generating

businesses could be paying fines

of $425 per occurrence if the council votes

to put teeth in the ordinance.


source...

rkg695

@cccmedia … let’s hope! They drive me nuts… I keep thinking they’re delivering ice cream, I’m hungry all the time dammit.

cccmedia

This is considered an automated response not

under an individual's control, often called

Pavlovian or classical conditioning.


It was documented by the winner of a 1904

Nobel prize -- Ivan Pavlov, a noted

Russian psychiatrist and neurologist.


He documented how his canines began to

salivate whenever his white-coated

assistants would enter the room.  The

animals associated the coats with

the delivery of food.


More than a century later, the world still

refers to this effect by mentioning

¨Pavlov's dog.¨

davidjb

Yes. Probably like the Good Humor man's bells or I believe it was Mr. Softee that was musical and  which brought soft-serve or what my good friend Joe De Paul called "whirlybop"