OF COURSE GERMANY HAS 'NOISE BARRIERS' ON THE ROADS 😂
Vložit
- čas přidán 17. 05. 2024
- Thank you for watching me, a humble American, react to Realer Irrsinn Noise barriers in Germany
Original video: • Realer Irrsinn: Loch i...
Thanks for subscribing for more German reactions every weekday!
Join as a member to get the ridiculous emojis and badge!
/ @ryanwass
Got a video request? You can fill out this form!
forms.gle/gmHJZBJqHk8cagjSA
Got a fun local news story? Submit it here!
forms.gle/FvRA7JEF4aJewmMK6
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. ALL RIGHTS BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS
something that Americans don’t seem to get. Noise is officially a pollution and people get sick from too much noise.
@@MrDjTilo Take that socialistic anti-corporate-freedom evil words from here #FreedomForSoundWaves
how he apparently thought the point of the video was to make the residents look ridiculous for disliking sound...💀
Sinclair when America really cares about the health of the people?
Noise is pollution in America too but the concept of it making you ill is something I've only heard of in Germany. There is a big sign in my town over the street stating this and it feels like I'm being brainwashed not to drive a car.
A little help for your German language. The word real is pronounced re-al because the combination e and a does not occur in German. The word real has immigrated
That‘s not "only in Germany". Noise protection is an EU-right, and you can find noise protection walls throughout Europe.
Always keep in mind that European countries have a much higher density than the USA. We must use the space we have.
Outside built-up areas you are allowed to drive 100km (62 miles) per hour on federal roads, so it really is loud there!
Even with closed windows.
It‘s also very dirty. They surely can‘t enjoy their gardens there.
Last but not least, the noise and fine dust pollution does not only affect humans but also wild animals. They, too have a problem with the density in our country. They can‘t just move on and find another piece of open land, so it‘s important to protect their habitats, too.
Exactly. European countries are small and more than often, the highways pass very, very close to some villages or hamlets (who existed centuries ago, way before highways), becoming a real problem for quality of life of those. Hence the walls who don't resolve everything but are better than nothing...
Here in Poland, the speed limit on the highway is 140km/h, and there's loads of noise barriers everywhere.
The density argument doesn't count because Americans were so stupid to build their highways through the middle of the city. Doesn't matter if they got more space.
Yeah, "only in [enter country name]" is the typical US american "assuming-things-without-checking-them" specialty.
I agree, not only in Germany, at least in Spain and Portugal there are noise barriers in highways....
All countries that can afford it and care about their people have noise barriers. No surprise that it is unknown in the US
You gotta be fair though and keep in mind that the US is 50 times larger and population density is lower by a factor of 7, compared to Germany. This means a stretch of road connecting two places is therefore 7 times more expensive if you just measure the cost factor by population/tax income.
And even if you compare the whole of the EU there is still a significant difference. It is 450 million people on 4 million km² in the EU vs 360 million people on 10 million km² in the USA, and that is roughly 900km²/capita vs 2800km²/capita, which is still a bit over a factor of 3. (please correct me if my math is wrong)
And then add the fact that the average American does not want the federal government to actually govern the country. Each state is responsible for their own roads in general and each state has their own taxes. You can't blame the US federal government for not caring if the people do not want the government to be responsible in the first place. They would scream "COMMUNISM" if any politician would only think loud about a similar system like in Europe. You saw this with "Obama care" and other projects politics have tried to pull off.
Biden came up with the infrastructure plan for the country and the cost was estimated about 800 million dollars, that is only one year of the military expenses, and yet everyone went nuts over the bill... While i thought, thats fucking cheap for a 50 years overdue project that would benefit the entire country. But hey thats just me, a communist European... 🤣
@@madrooky1398 while you do have a point about the higher costs there, that's also a potential ~280 million more tax payers. On a good budget, this should more than even itself out. I don't think it's related to a financing problem, considering at least the G7 (especially the USA) can basically manifest money out of thin air.
This might be more of a problem of "not wanting" rather than "not being able to", as you already stated with your Obama care point.
And you're totally right about the 800 Million dollar bill. It's a joke compared to the state debt they accumulated (~1.4 billion $ in 2022, amounting to ~33 billion $ in total).
But yeah, communisms our main problem 🤣
@@Mike_droptv Please understand me correctly, the factor 7 is population per landmass. The landmass difference without population factored in, is 50.
The 280 million more people are considered when I say "7 times more expensive".
This is a huge difference.
Here is little thought experiment. Think about your way to work, or school, or whatever you are doing regularly.
Now think about the distance would be twice as long. Then 3 times, then 4 times, and so on until you are at 7.
Try to imagine what impact each step has on your own experience, and also on the infrastructure and what that means to maintenance and construction.
Of course this is only a simple number game and many other things can influence the price of a road. Like it is way more expensive to build roads in Germany because it is so densely populated, and you need to adjust to settlements and landscape in a different way. The quality standard is different and so on.
But there is also another thing that is very different in the US, and that is population sprawl. Meaning, there are very big cities with millions of people and a lot of empty land in the country side. So the contrast from that perspective is even higher. Germany has a relatively consistent sprawl, big cities are not as huge and there are small towns and villages every few Kilometers. Then take a look at the LA metropolitan area, it is an insanely huge and dense area compared to anything in Europe. Its like all the big German cities next to each other and then some. While the country side next to it has to be huge and empty to get to this average number of 7.
To me this is a fascinating difference in scale that is rarely considered when comparing cultures. It is very difficult to wrap your head around on how many aspects of life this has an impact.
I came to the conclusion that many of the typical American cultural traits can be better understood when you keep this difference of scale in mind.
@@madrooky1398 ok, your original statement was too littered with math and I spaced off to an extend, where I didn't quite remember the initial point. But that's a me-problem, I'm not very fond of math. Sorry for that :D
Americans for sure have way longer commutes, travels and overall road time, but do you really think it just boils down to a simple financing problem? As you already stated, if the white house rolled out a big plan for improving the infrastructure nationwide, everyone and their grandma would pull their hair out over the slowly creeping communism. I think it's more of an ideological problem. That's not to say we in europe don't have ideological problems. At least where I live (southern Germany) we've got a buttload of catholic-conservative hardliners that think coal power is a future safe & clean way to go. I digress, sorry...
To get back to the original point. Yeah, getting the road infrastructure to a "german level", is a huge and extremely expensive undertaking. But it's a thing you'd have to do at one point, if you don't want your citizens to get sick, considering there're more and more cars on the road every day, especially in metropolitan areas. And when you're done with that, you might wanna just keep going in the more rural areas. It improves the lives of everybody.
Small fun fact. The Rhein-Rhur-metropolitan area (North-rhine-westfalia) is one of the biggest metropolitan areas, with ~10-11 Million citizens and a way denser population than LA (1500 people/km² opposed to 212 people/km²) 😜
America simply does not need sound barriers.
not only Germany, all our countries around in EU have sound barriers... :)
+ Norway
@@elisabethpedersen7893 + Iceland, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and the UK
Even Belgium
+Canada
Ireland, we had them in NZ when I lived there as well over 40 years ago.
There is a McDonalds ad in Germany saying their new burger is so crispy and loud they could never sell it during quiet hours, and every time I see that ad I have to think of you and how funny you would find it.😂
Oh good, I'm not the only one 😂
That commercial is freaking hilarious.
Haha you are not alone, I think of him too when this ad pops up! And sometimex I murmur "take that, Ryan!" 🤣
@@LythaWausW Ja, der Spot ist echt der Brüller. Gute Idee!
Trotzdem gehe ich nie zu McDonalds und Co.
Same 😂😂
what do you mean, build the noise barrier before we moved in? Those people probably lived there before the road was even in planning. Also, that measurement device costs about 20€, so why wouldn't they buy one to gather evidence?
You get some for €20 (I have one), but these were better types from €80-120.
Nowadays you don't even need a special device cause it is literally just another free smartphone app 😂
@@ralfrutkat4495 But a smartphone as a measuring device is not very precise for most values. The sensors are different for each type and mostly not constructed for measuring. You would need to calibrate it which is not so easy without a bunch of (expensive) tools. We compared it when model plane flying and the apps were not useful compared to real instruments (even if comparably cheap).
@@reinhard8053Everything you wrote is correct and I totally agree. My thinking was, that it's good enough to give you a general ballpark. 😊
@@ralfrutkat4495 Just to add another thing that can be an issue with apps: Higher end smartphones usually have built-in noise suppression and depending on how it is implemented, there's a good chance the app doesn't have access to the raw audio at all.
As was said at the beginning of the video, the road was newly built and the house was there before.
There are medical studies that say noise makes you sick. For an American living in a country that doesn't give a shit about its citizens, this is of course confusing.
Und hier kann man sogar das Leitungswasser bedenkenlos trinken. Noch toller: Mett ist hier ungefährlich unter hygienischen Gesichtspunkten. In Amerika sicherheitshalber verboten. Die können Lebensmittelsicherheit nur schwer gewährleisten.
@@EgoundderRest das stimmt so pauschal nicht. Hier könnte man das Leitungswasser zwar bedenkenlos trinken, aktuell tun das aber die wenigsten Deutschen. In Amerika trinken die Leute "tap water", sehr viel häufiger als hierzulande. Die Gesetze dazu sind ähnlich streng, und in der Tat auch älter als hierzulande. Auch die Gesetze zur Lebensmittelsicherheit sind unterschiedlich: Du wirst sowohl hier in Deutschland Dinge finden die in Amerika verboten sind, als auch genau anders herum. Es ist viel mehr so das die Historie und Mentalität eine andere ist, was dann zu unterschiedlichen Reaktionen und auch Gesetzen führt. (imho/ymmv)
Please take into consideration that the creator lives in a somewhat rural area and may never have been exposed to any such issues and thus may be ignorant to them, which I, personally, find acceptable, especially because it's evident that he's willing to educate himself about other countries, their cultures and issues.
@@EgoundderRest On the other hand german restaurants must not serve halfboiled soft eggs, because they coooouuuld maaaybee cause sickness.
Noise barriers are awesome!
It completely transforms the soundscape of a neighbourhood from a racing track to village life.
I have also seen noise barriers in other European countries.
The highway makes a lot of noise, in the right location in certain weather you can hear the noises despite noise barriers.
Ryan, these devices measure the volume, they are used everywhere to test the volume.
83 dB (decibels) is roughly the volume you measure right next to a lawnmower. 24 hours a day.
An airplane is only 20 decibels louder.
The Autobahn is a few km from my house and, depending on weather (and probably traffic), we still hear a constant sound.
Surprisingly even the US uses db and didn't came up with a twistingly weird own unit 😅
"only 20 db" is a lot remember the decibel scale is logarithmic.
'only' 20 decibles louder means its perceived as 100 times louder
but yes a highway/autobahn is hella loud and im really glad noise barriers are a thing here in europe
@@kiwichem4336 its not perceived 100 times louder the amplitude is 100 times louder.
Human hearing is also not linear.
I think it should be more like four times as loud
hating too much noise isn't just an old people thing here in Germany. I'm 23, in December, I'll turn 24, and I already hate loud noise. I'm trying to sleep. I have to get up early. Why do you throw a party during weekdays?! Are you unemployed or something?!
I live in a student dorm, I'm 23 and will turn 24 in January, and I also wonder way too often if people don't have anything to do. Like, I get that we're all students, but how can you afford constantly staying up into the middle of the night, and then have to be loud in front of my window? Luckily, now that it's cold, it's way better than it was in summer.
Don’t you have friends ?
@@bobgoldman4404 I don't, but even if I had friends, a loud ass party where my eardrums might burst at any second, and where the loud ass music causes me headaches isn't my idea of fun.
In case you're wondering, I have dyspraxia.
@@bobgoldman4404 I do, but I tend to meet them during the daytime...
@@bobgoldman4404 Most of us do but you know, they have to go to work too. Crazy concept I know.
Hi Ryan, since Noise Control Act of 1972 you also have noisebarriers in the US.
9:22 When the captions dropped out, the guy from the authority just said "I need to explain it another way...how shall I explain that now" while smiling, seemingly knowing he couldn't
We have noise barriers in Australia also not only in Germany. Peace out.
Well, than it is not solely a "European thing" because of the population density :D
Nope. Not only in Germany. That also exists in many other European countries.
They were there on NZ motorways back in the 1970s, where we lived the motorway was down in a huge dip with high walls built either side where it passed through the town = from countryside to seaside, only passed through a relatively small area but it was busy and they cut right down into the ground to ensure the noise was deadened by the high banks either side. Worked as you really only heard the background noise as an ever resent fairly quiet hum which after a week or so your brain simply tuned out.
As someone who grew up in a house that was almost literally underneath a big Autobahn bridge and boxed in by train tracks, trust me those noise barries make all the difference! They are important.
Noise barriers allow houses to be built closer to highways through cities. In the Netherlands where space is scarce it's a common thing
A country that cares about its people does that!
There are noise barriers all over the Europe
The Moment he finds out there are Geruchsgutachten 😂
The story is; there is a plot of land with an old unused producion facility and next to it there is block with eight appartments. Peolple living in those apparment complained for years about high noise level of the street. Then the city agreed to build an noise protection wall, but they build it in front of the production facility instead of the apparments. .....
"Look, it's got A/C built in. Must be an american one." 😂😂😂
Hi Ryan, A couple of things.
Agreed the barrier has to end somewhere, but as you noticed its a gap rather than the start or end .
Also there is a continuous barrier the other side of the road.
The barrier the other side of the road will reflect noise through that gap.
We have those barriers or similar in UK, so not only in Germany.
I think they exist in USA.
There are similar barriers in East London (UK) but the effect is much improved with the addition of plants, the absorb noise and catch dust making the air the other side cleaner.
Washington State has a set of guidelines for them, guessing other states may also have, just the state I found via Google.
The purpose of owning a house instead of renting an apartment is also to have a garden or at least an outside area where you can sit and enjoy summertime, have some friends over for a BBQ etc. So apart from airing out the house which usually only takes a few minutes before closing the windows again you will be having a hard time sitting outside to enjoy the grounds you paid for, often a high price.
Its normal thing in Europe as here in Czechia. Noone would willingly live next to highway without noise barrier. There are even parts of those barriers covering only like 50m bcs of one house. Its normal here. :D
The subtitles could be better, as always. Here are a few clarifications:
6:53 He's saying the noise pollution is not measured BUT calculated
8:10 They use the word "stillgelegt" which is translated as "disused". It's a pun on "still" since it also means "quiet", that being the reason the factory would needs noise protection
9:19 Where the subtitles cut out the expert from the department of state road is trying to explain why they built the noise protection for the disused factory but not the settlement. But even he has trouble coming up with an excuse on the spot 😂
The noise barrier is not everywhere either. In our area, the noise barrier is also open in some places. But there are also wide meadows. The great thing about it is when I'm at my mother's house and she lives about 3 - 4 km from the motorway. When the wind is right in summer and a motorbike is revving up. Then we hear that.
Hey Ryan. After so many videos you've made, I think you're still not fully aware of one fact about Germany that would answer so many of your questions and concerns about Germany. America is 27 times larger than Germany but only has about 4 times as many inhabitants. That would be like if 1/4 of all Americans only lived in Montana (where, funnily enough, only 1 million Americans live). I think this answers a lot of questions Americans have about Germany. why are our streets so narrow and the cars rather small? Why do so many people live in rent and not in their own large house with a large garden? and like in this video, why do we have noise barriers? In a densely populated country like Germany, it is unfortunately inevitable that busy federal highways lead past inhabited areas. In these cases, the population must be protected through such measures.
True, but not really the only reason. You see, in the US, many highways are actually pretty close to residential areas. Highways also tend to go straight through their cities and many people actually live close to highways. But in the US they care a bit less about this topic. They just let the housing value of these places drop down to low levels and then poor people live there, who won't get any protection from the noise of that highway. If people fight construction projects like this, than it's more about the land/house value and less about the noise.
And than there is a difference how Americans buy and own houses, compared with Germans (or many other Europeans). They often buy multiple houses thoughout their lives. Houses are cheap and moving is a common thing. Germans often only buy one in their live. They are expensive and are meant to serve families for multiple generations. So if you got a new job in the US, but struggle with money, you could choose to buy a cheap house in a not so shiny region and with noise issues like this, because you're planning to move away from there in a decade or so anyway.
True
Another point is that the USA doesn't really care about people. You can see this, for example, in the poor health insurance or unemployment benefits. If you are poor you have lost. Then you get worse health care on a third world country level. And if you have to go into debt because of medical treatment or job loss, you'll end up on the streets faster than in any other western country. And if you don't care about people and their health, you don't need to build a noise barrier.
Ok, there is a lot of wordplay here, that you can't understand, because it doesn't translate.
When the subtitle said " clear to me, it's a DISUSED factory, logically"
The german word for "disused" used here is "stillgelegt" and "still" means "silent".
It's obvious that the factory site needs a noise barrier in order to remain _stillgelegt_
Not only in Germany. Everywhere un EU.
Not only in Germany!! And these highways were later pushed between already existing estates. Therefore, the population next to them has the right to partial protection. It's not just about whether you have the windows open or not. People also live outside the houses, cultivate the land etc...!! Everyone is bothered by noise, not just the elderly. Count on the fact that there is less wide space than in America and the roads are positioned too close to the houses in many places.
I have to disappoint you here but sound barriers on highways definitely do exist in the US
The first noise barriers were actually built in the USA since the mid-twentieth century. (According to Wikipedia the one at I-680 in Milpitas, California was the first noise barrier.)
A federal (distant) road (bundesfernstraße) is also a form of highway here in germany, it connects (most of the times) two cities. The third form would be a "state road" (1:1 translation), which connects the smaller villages and cities. In difference to the autobahn the speedlimit is 100 kmh and the signs are yellow.
Reading this kind of comment under every video about speed limits in Germany makes me think where you all got your driving licence. Otherwise you would know that there is no speed limit on any road outside of a build-up area that has at least 2 lanes per direction or a physical barrier between the lanes. It has nothing to do with the type of road. This always applies to the Autobahn, but can also apply to Bundesstraßen.
Federal roads can also span multiple federal states
Be careful! You're basically right but keep in mind that not every Bundesstraße is a Kraftfahrstraße(!) If it is one that has at least 2 lanes per direction or a physical barrier, then there is no limit. @@Reboot_TV
@@AlaskaSeelachs04 i have never seen any kraftfahrstraße without a speed limit
@@Salzui Well, it is very rare and I only know one. But even in Berlin and a couple kilometers around where I live I don't know one either.
I live literally under 10 m appart from a "Autonahn (A40 in Essen), and the noise barrier is a blessing.
Without you cozldn't understand each other due to the traffic.
WITH the noise barrier, there is no problem
You alwys forget about Austria xD we have that stuff too
Yeah and in nearly every other european country 😂
6:14 "Look, it's got AC built into it, it must be an American one" had me laughing so hard!
Although *"air conditioning"* is actually only a thing in the US, in this case AC means "alternating current", so the sound level meter isn't necessarily American.
Your reaction :-D LOL It made me laugh almost all the way through ... YES that video is 100% GERMAN ! REALLY ! greetings from Hamburg, Germany :-D
The roof is cover with roof tiles almost from clay, but around the chimney the used slate (Schiefer).
In some areas the roof or the whole house is covered with slate.
The button labeled "A/C" is "all clear", reset all displayed values to prepare for a new measurement. Nothing to do with air condition. ;-)
We have a very similar problem close to where I live at the border between Germany and Switzerland.
There are two villages, village A wants a noice cancelling barrier but doesn’t get one, village B has one but they never wanted a barrier because it obstructs the view.
These noise barriers absolutely exist in the US. I drive by several each day.
Hey man, I just wanted to leave you a positive note from my part.
I've been binging your videos over the past 2 days because you managed to win me over quickly with your open-minded and relaxed attitude.
You've managed to get me to enjoy again, engaging with the culture of the country that I grew up in and left behind as soon as I could.
I appreciate that and felt that it was only right to let you know how much positive impact your content can have on others.
Cheers mate!
It's an ultra common thing in Poland
In Slovenia have we that too
Ryan, please create a video about Austria. Austria is a little bit like a second Germany
das wär so krass wenn er auf ein Video über Österreich reagieren würde
Hoffentlich macht er das
"a little bit like a second Germany" - Don't let the Austrians hear you say that!
@@Zockdoch österreicher sind halt auch nur deutsche
@@Zockdoch Since we Austrians seem to be the only people interested in our little banana republic, I'm guessing OP is Austrian themselves.
The problem with the "calculated noise level" on this road is that they certainly did the math without the reflective noise barrier on the other side of the road, which reflects even more noise from passing cars back towards the houses. Without that noise barrier, it might be possible that the math could be correct
But how did the program calculate a lower noise level only in that particular section ? The noise barrier is continous along very long sections of that road at the side of a railway line.
That's neither a recommendation for the program they've used nor a recommendation of the expertise of the users working with it.
It's just weird.
@@MichaelBurggraf-gm8vl true... possibly a miracle? ;)
I'm always happy to hear americans reaction to german houses. How secure and good the walls and materials are.
one of theses days ryan has to watch some german content with a german to get live explanations for the jokes.
We also have "whisper tarmac" in Germany ... it reduces the tire-noise so significantly - when it begins you sometimes get confused, if something on your car is broken.
In deed a lot of science goes into building-roads in Germany...
And... of course Germans can build a barrier around whole parts of the country... we profed it 1961 😉
This whisper tarmac however is only used in special places where further reduction is needed than noise barriers and reasonable speed limitations offer. And it is not as durable as regular.
Noise barriers are actually pretty effective.
In some places in the Netherlands we even have roads that are sunken to hide them from the grand view and to completely eliminate the noise. And the noise barriers are everywhere where people live close to highways. Which seems quite logical to me as a government to do with our tax money.
The 80 decibel limit for noise is even applied to workspaces, where you are required by workers rights laws to wear protection if you have to endure more than that for more than 2 hours per day. So we take it very serious when that limit is even closely broken in residential areas and as said in the video that wasn´t even at rush hour where it may go up much higher than the 84 dB.
Plus most of those noise reducing measure where built long after people lived there, as traffic got much more over the last decades.
There is also extra silent road concrete which reduces the sound of the tires.
The noise barriers arent just only in germany and also not on every road haha
I was driven to the video by the thumb picture. I mean, I was quite surprised: "noise barriers, only in germany". Those are common where I live, in Madrid, Spain. To my knowledge, you could find them in any Spanish city. I'm sure you can find them anywhere in Europe, as a matter of fact, probably because of european noise regulations. I've been following you channel for a few months now, and I dare to believe most of the things you are learning about Germany, you could extrapolate to the rest of the EU. Anyway, your videos are quite entertaining, and you look like a nice and pleasant guy. Just broaden your mind a bit. Thanks, and have a great day.
Imagine a country densly poplulated and a street that's likely like an Autobahn, build right in front of your nose. You may live there sice decades and suddenly they decide to put this streen in there. Yay 😮! And on top of this they build this silly hole into it and even did not THINK about it!! How can it be that on the same street the noise level will be different on a part of maybe 20 m? And imagine, you've had a beautiful garden to sit in and now even cant sleep with open window …
To the chimney: This is covered with shingles made of slate.
What I find funny is that he doesn't get that the houses were there before. People don't move that much. If you buy a house, you mostly stay there for the rest of your life. And having noise pollution for the rest of your life sucks. 😅
Not only in Germany, we in Croatia also have such sound barriers on the roads. 🙂🇭🇷
Noise is also stress - mechanical stress. It makes you sick, so it‘s pretty smart to have these 😉
Immer wieder schade das solche Wortwitze wie "stillgelegt" verloren gehen.
The pauses in realer is re-a-ler. Learning when to pause IMO is almost more important then figuring out all of the exact sounds in German
So great he called noise barriers "studio" 😂😂
I think the gap in the noise barrier is for easy accessibility of the road in a case of an emergency like a big accident when the road is blocked. There is a road from the settlement directly behind the fence, so firefighters and ambulance can go there and reach the federal road, the fence can easily be torn down in an emergency.
That the houses need no noise protection, as the critical values for noise are abided, maybe only a cheap excuse. So there is no need to buy the land of the former factory, extending the municipal road and make the gap in the nose barrier there. The costs for the whole new federal road would have been much higher and it would probably not have been build yet...
The house probably was there before the federal road, because the federal road is as stated new.
The way he always says „halla“ in the beginning. 😂😂
I can't even 😂...
I adore your assumptions about Germany!
There are " noise barriers" in the UK as well.
Just a pity we can't put a noise barrier around American tourists when they come over here !🙉
We also have them on train tracks.
And it's a new road, the people lived there before the road was built.
"Real Madness! Hole in the Noise Barrier!"
That noise barrier was erected all along that road, but just where that couple has owned a house for a long time the government decided to leave am large hole in the barrier. Happens all the time.
However, the disused factory in the neighborhood definitely needs a noise barrier...
1. The fact that there's a noise barrier on the opposite side of that road makes it even worse for the residents behind that hole. I'm sure the authorities measured the noise levels before they start building any wall there.
2. You might have missed that joke at 7:11 - the German word "stillgelegt" (disused), basic form "stillegen" (disuse) is a word composition of "still" (quiet) and "legen" (to lay) - so "it's clear that the factory site has to be protected from noise because it has been "laid quiet".
Noise levels would not be measured normally, they will be calculated when the planning for the road is done. Then they also plan where Lärmschutzwände are needed.
@@Delibro That's even worse, so they just grab numbers from some stupid formula
Minute 2:45 you think in german more and more 😂 i am from germany, love youre thinking. 😊
This is a case of "We do it by the book and not with the people." There are formulas how to calculate the expected noise pollution, and those formulas were applied to the road. This then determined where to put noise barriers. No one ever talked to the people along the road where they might need noise barriers.
Only the noise barrier? That's cheap. 😵Here they always want tunnels under their villages. 🤔😂
These noise barriers are quite common in europe when highways are passing through dense living areas especially when the speed is not or slightly limited and where the area between the road and the houses are too tight to put enough trees to absorb the noise.
They are modelling the noise level of the highway and its distribution. I don't know the details but I presume that because the highway has a slight curve the noise level on the outside of the curve is lower as it distributes on a bigger area thus getting below the level limit to establish a noise protection wall. Minor changes in elevation of the surronding area may contribute, too.
@8:55: Chimney: They made out of slate. The roof tiles are made out of clay but its glazed, not all but here on this roof.
It's so funny to see your perspective on Germany. You make the funny things even funnier as you make fun about things that I'm used to and I never think about 😂👍
And you teach me a bit of my own country and how to love it😊
Congratulations Ryan, you're famous!
Today I read an article about you and your YT-video about the driving test in a German online newspaper ("Focus")!
9:22 He says: "No, I have to explain that differently. How am I going to explain that..." And the caption says something like Harald Kaske, Federal Road Research Institute.
A block weighing tons came loose from the noise barrier. Concrete slab falls on car - driver (66) dead. Cologne - horror accident on the Cologne motorway ring. On the A3 towards Oberhausen, a car was hit by a block of noise barrier weighing several tons. The female driver (66) of the Polo died at the scene of the accident.
- This happened in November 2020
In Italy we have noise barriers along many motor ways especially the ones with the most intense traffic. You will find them on most European motorways. Sometime i feel like the US is more of third world country. I think it is sad that you never heard of them
OK so I live in Tulsa and we have those noise barrier walls everywhere here around highway 51 and highway 169. They're walls along highways that reduce noise for houses near the roads. You don't have those in Indiana??? Although I did drive through Indiana a few years ago and a pothole on the INTERSTATE destroyed a tire and dented one of my alloy wheels. Oh, a Bundesstrasse, or Federal Road, is a secondary road, with yellow signs, a particular number for identification. Speed limit will be 100 outside of towns/cities.
08:38 House walls or chimneys are often covered with clapboards made of slate, metal or plastic.
Got that all over Eu. Regards from Czech republic
In Germany, every place where the highway is very close has such a "noise protection wall".
As you know, we don't have air conditioning and love open windows...
These noise barriers are found on many motorways in Australia too. Not sure why you’d think it’s only Europe. You seem to be forgetting the phrase “only in America” when it comes to ignoring the well-being and health of the general population.
Damn this time Ryan you gave us a reality check on how americans think, just the fact that you are so confused with sound barriers is hilarious :D
Here in Belgium some highways get a bit close to citizen housing and we need to slow down to about half the usual speed(from 120 to 70) and there are noise cancelling walls on both sides for about 2 miles or so. Seems reasonable.
Because automatic fines are allowed over here everyone also does this.
as a german who watched the video till the end, there is just one question: where is my cookie? 🤔
I don't know where in the u.s. you live but Wisconsin has noise barriers
There are noise barriers along the highways everywhere in the EU. Sometimes you are offensive both in making fun of the Germans and also the concept of noise barriers.
Ryan, the word is inexcusable, not unexcusable. Greetings from Germany :)
We have noise barriers on expressways in Australia where they pass near residential areas. It's completely normal.
2:50 The street is new and not the f*cking house.. so maybe they baught the house before there was a highway. or they acted in "back to the future"..
That's in all EU countries and countries like Japan
Shingles which are made out of clay usually appear red. The ones you mention are dark grey, so they are made out of slate. It differs from region to region depending on which resource is situated in the region.
While slate looks dark grey and has been used in the past in some regions to cover roofs, what you saw in the video were shingles just ones that had been coloured dark grey (there are several different methods to do so). Nowadays slate is usually only used to cover vertical walls (the chimney in the video might have been cover with slate).
There are two (main) materials for roof shingles: adobe and concrete. You can color Adobe but what you saw in the video was most likely concrete. You get concrete shingles in all kinds of colors and in different shapes. The newest models have a shiny surface.
@@twinmama42 maybe I did not speak clear enough, I just wanted to show out where the grey color comes from, and it definately comes from slate. That nowadays lots of shingles are made from other materials - sure. But it was about red and grey, and the grey ones' idol is slate.
Afreed.@@Herzschreiber
@@twinmama42 Fun fact: Half an hour after my reply to you my doorbell rang. It was my Landlord who told me I should be prepared: During the next hour a roofer will appear because two shingles are broken and rain gets inside the roof. (I live in an attic, so the roofer wanted to enter the roof through my bedroom window) Haha, RL has hit our comments ^^
Iirc there is a city in the netherlands that takes noise pollution so seriously, it makes anything in germany look like a joke.
There is a video called "cities aren't loud, cars are" if you're interested
@8:05 Yes, and then the narrator says "stillgelegte Fabrik= a factory wich canceled it's operation" but "still": stands for low or no noise. So there was a pun by the narrator. In Extra3/Realer Irrsinn you will often see crazy bureaucratic storys from Germany.
We in Croatia have that last 20 years on roads!!