Residents Want That Noise to Go Away – City Agrees

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Angry residents can rest assured that the noise really will go away, someday. It’s going to take about six months, officials in the City of San Francisco explain. Meanwhile, they promise that the iconic Golden Gate Bridge will stop the annoying hum it picked up “sometime in late 2022.” It will cost the taxpayers around $450,000 to fix something which could have been prevented if the engineers who added some improvements had a real education. One that teaches reading and math, instead of common-core critical race theory.

Noise nuisance solved

The word “noise” specifically means an “unwanted sound.” There’s no other way to describe what started happening in 2020, because the “eerie, humming sound” isn’t wanted by anyone. The Golden Gate Bridge is one of America’s cherished iconic landmarks, “spanning majestically across the San Francisco Bay.”

Since 1937, it’s been “one of the most famous and picturesque sights on the West Coast.” It also was quiet. Nobody noticed it was there. Then, the engineers came along and it suddenly started “emitting a strange sound.”

It’s taken until now to identify the cause and come up with a solution. The noise will go away after crews “make another addition to the bridge.” Two years ago, the decision was made that the bridge needed stabilization for high winds.

The engineers “installed thin slats between the handrail and driving deck.” They didn’t anticipate what would happen next. The hum started because of wind blowing over the slats.

To get rid of the noise, crews will add “thousands of U-shaped aluminum clips, about an eighth of an inch with rubber inserts, which will silence the hum.” They think.

Even though it comes to the tune of half a million bucks, the “fix will be music to the ears of thousands of San Franciscans.”

It’s loud, too

It isn’t just people right up against the bridge who are complaining about the noise. “Yesterday, it was so loud. We live in the Outer Richmond and we could hear it from our house,” Brianne Howell relates.

The city has already tried fixes like “adding horizontal bars to the slats and adding coarse tape to the edge of the slats.”

The experts are sure that the latest idea will solve the noise problem for good. “The U-shaped clips have been by far the most effective of the remedies tested, bridge district officials said.”

They made sound studies “in nearby residential neighborhoods” that suggest “with the rubber cushion the sound of the vibrating slats would be indistinguishable from the normal sound of the bridge during all conditions.”

They would not have needed the extra wind stability if it hadn’t been for all the suicidal bridge jumpers. When they put “suicide deterrents on the bridge’s edges” it lost “aerodynamic stability.” Now instead of the noise of screaming people, they have a weird hum.

Locals just want to see it fixed and don’t want it to get fixed like that pedestrian footbridge in Florida. That was another prime example of common core engineering. It didn’t have any support structure but the cutting edge bridge was self-cleaning and had WiFi.

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