{"id":713,"date":"2013-02-01T15:02:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T20:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/?p=713"},"modified":"2013-02-01T15:02:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T20:02:51","slug":"dont-dont-honk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/archives\/713","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t don&#8217;t honk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what some might some might take as an admission of defeat (or at least a concession to reality), the New York City Department of Transportation has begun removing each and every &#8220;Don&#8217;t Honk&#8221; road sign from the city streets. \u00a0<a title=\"Stop the Honking? New York Suggests It\u2019s a Lost Cause\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/01\/29\/nyregion\/new-york-removes-no-honking-signs.html\" target=\"_blank\">According to the New York Times<\/a>, &#8220;the move is part of an effort to declutter\u00a0the streets of often ignored signs.&#8221; \u00a0 The signs also give the impression that unneeded honks were only a violation where the signage was installed; with or without a sign,\u00a0unnecessary honking remains illegal throughout the city with fines starting at $350.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Don't Honk Sign\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/05\/Don%27t_Honk_Sign.JPG\/320px-Don%27t_Honk_Sign.JPG\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Enforcement is another matter; last year the NYPD issued only 206 summonses. \u00a0Most New Yorkers could count that many car horns in a day, if they were paying attention to them\u2014of course, for most New Yorkers, ignoring the din of constant honking is a quickly learned survival skill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what some might some might take as an admission of defeat (or at least a concession to reality), the New York City Department of Transportation has begun removing each and every &#8220;Don&#8217;t Honk&#8221; road sign from the city streets. \u00a0According to the New York Times, &#8220;the move is part of an effort to declutter\u00a0the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[50,30,32,43],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cars","tag-noise","tag-nyc-noise-control-code","tag-soundscapes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}