§ 35. Sir CHARLES OMANasked the Minister of Transport whether, in view of the loss of sleep and the injury to health caused by loud motor noises at night, he will issue a regulation prohibiting the use of horns and other noisy instruments by motorists in residential thoroughfares during the midnight hours except in cases of emergency?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of TRANSPORT (Lieut.-Colonel Headlam)This question has been considered from time to time but the Minister regrets that he cannot see his way to make a regulation such as my hon. Friend suggests. Apart from the difficulty of deciding what is a residential area and what is an emergency, the Minister is not satisfied that such a regulation would be in the interests of public safety. The installation of light control signals has, I think, had an appreciable effect in reducing noise from the use of motor horns at cross roads.