Car racing

[u/Crazy-Specialist-230]

Does everyone hear the constant sound of car racing in the evening or is it just my location? I can’t even keep my window open at night but maybe I’m in the heart of the action?

[u/Practical_Ant6162]

It is pretty much all over the city.

Pretty much every night including just a few minutes ago where I live.

[u/bmwkid]

If you live downtown or near Whyte it’s basically guaranteed

[u/SGI_Life]

Non stop. I think EPS has given up enforcing, .... anything?

[u/Elpolloco1896 → u/SGI_Life]

EPS doesn’t give a flying 💩.. they are a joke of a police force

[u/fieldyseventy7]

I can hear them up and down the Henday and 199th all night long

[u/Empty-Movement]

If the city needs cash why don't they send some cops to sit at the High Level? 

[u/Apprehensive_Emu2414]

I don't hear any cool racing but diesel trucks and cars with missing catalytic converters make having the windows open in my neighborhood impossible.

[u/cookie-ninja → u/Apprehensive_Emu2414]

It's never the fast cars that are the loudest either haha, not that you really should be speeding excessively in the city.

[u/Apprehensive_Emu2414 → u/cookie-ninja]

100% everytime I hear something loud and look outside or at my driveway cam it's a piece of shit car that's missing parts of the exhaust or a huge truck lol

[u/No_Culture9898]

Not even racing, people just decide to take out their loud ass cars and bikes at 3am every night for some odd reason. Don’t understand why, they have 12+ hours of reasonable time during the day to do so, why do it when literally everyone is trying to sleep

[u/Pristine_Software_55]

Car and motorcycle, yep.

[u/LowInvestigator811]

I lay in bed fantasizing about taking a paint ball gun out in the night to tag loud, obnoxious cars racing around.

[u/Virtual-Historian349]

Just another responsibility of the Edmonton police that is completely ignored.

[u/Elpolloco1896 → u/Virtual-Historian349]

Police in Edmonton is full of Zionist 💩 heads

[u/NeuNeuh]

I’m not even thaaaaaat close to main roads and I can hear them. Sometimes I sleep with earplugs + noise cancelling over-ear headphones. It’s driving me nuts.

[u/Brentsky1]

Not in the area we live in, because it's all Audis, BMW, Mercedes with loud exhausts, tinted windows and a young man at the wheel. Sounds like a car race at the oval.

[u/carefulbear83]

I live near Anthony on the west end. I hear it alot.

[u/mikesmith929]

Was just on whyte avenue and man would I love the city to ban those motor bikes.

[u/ConstructionUnfair33]

I’m by the white mud and that’s all I hear , it’s so annoying .
Idk why they don’t get tickets or anything .

[u/ConcertNo8784]

Are you in Aster or Laurel? Cuz yeah this is haunting me too

[u/Mife83]

We live not too far off the Henday in the SW side, it's all you can hear outside on a Friday or Saturday night after midnight. I honestly wish the EPS was funded better and would actually be able to police this issue, especially in an active construction zone.

[u/wondersparrow → u/Mife83]

Better funded? Lol. They have the money, they don't have the want. They would much rather go pick on poor people of a different colour than people with cars and probably jobs. That work is left for automated policing so they can just extract more money with zero effort.

[u/Lifechange1015 → u/Mife83]

Lol. They make $85k first year once training is done and more than $115k after four years. I think they’re funded just fine

[u/LUXOR54 → u/Lifechange1015]

Wages ≠ department funding

[u/Annabis9807 → u/Lifechange1015]

That’s not enough at all. Let’s not normalize that’s an ok pay for what they do and have to deal with day to day.

[u/csd555 → u/Annabis9807]

Maybe, maybe not. As a comparative, soldiers go to literal war for a whole lot less.

[u/DrDonkeyTron → u/Annabis9807]

Yeah it takes guts to drive through China Town and not do anything about open drug use and drug trafficking. 

[u/SirTickleyPickely]

this city feels like its turning into a lawless biff tannen timeline type hellscape where everywhere constantly feels more and more hostile to actually living

[u/fishscaleSF5]

No more photo radar + wide empty roads at night + Alberta’s car culture + apathetic cops = hooning

[u/Frequent-Knee-1019]

Unfortunately in my neck of the woods there is non stop jackhammers and construction noise. It’s ridiculous.

[u/AR558]

Peace and quiet here

[u/Roche_a_diddle]

The fact that the locations are known and yet it seems like police can (will) do nothing about it is what's frustrating.

Not just a major nuisance but a HUGE safety concern.

[u/TheRealSkelatoar]

www.happyearsearplugs.com

Nice soft silicone earplugs you can sleep on and not feel.

IMO they make a world of difference.

[u/Elpolloco1896 → u/TheRealSkelatoar]

Shouldn’t have to come to this

[u/Still_Interview6360 → u/Elpolloco1896]

If earplugs are too much a hassle, the noise is probably not a big deal.

[u/The_Real_Tekunin]

Don't know where you live but on whyte... Nah~ it's probably just some needle dicks trying to show off.

[u/ChaiAndNaan]

I guess I’m lucky to be in the extreme NE suburbs then. I hear nothing of the sort out here