The complaints are not mild. ‘Noise terror’, ‘aggression-inducing’, ‘tick noise’ and ‘disruptive sleep’ are a few of the frequently recurring complaints. “We received 24,000 words, contained in 46 A4 pages, of angry responses,” says Van Nes. “A resident said that her autistic 16-year-old son regularly becomes completely overstimulated by the noise.”
Amersfoort residents complain en masse about traffic noise: ‘They have a shit about everything’
