Does police enforce rumbling cars through Downtown Bellevue streets? | Letter

Published 12:00 pm Monday, May 2, 2016

Downtown Bellevue is a noisy place: during weekdays, a continuing pounding and rumbling din emanating from the many buildings under construction and the tearing-up of streets that go with it.

Those of us who live amid all that, however, may grow more or less accustomed to the noise, to the point where it may even be possible to take a mid-day nap. In contrast, what is particularly odious and intolerable for downtowners is numerous times per day, the far more extreme, mega-decibel noise of certain cars, which drivers have deliberately equipped with engines and mufflers to produce maximum attention-getting noise as they roar through city streets at high speeds.

I’m wondering: When was the last time the Bellevue police force issued a ticket to a driver and car so driven and so equipped? Last year? The year before? Or none in memory?

R. Schonberger

Bellevue