http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: “Traffic noise slows children’s memory development, study finds“ en Sun, 31 May 2026 08:38:49 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20973#post-361144 Fri, 03 Jun 2022 08:31:04 +0000 gembo 361144@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Statement within the link that the study was carefully designed,</p> <p>And the point they are making is peak noise over average noise so it is quite fine grained.</p> <p>Would need to cancel out for poverty, as there is a tendency to find schools in poorer areas nearer roads. They used 38 schools so I think they will have checked for this.</p> <p>Noise rather than pollution is interesting as they are arguing electric cars will take away the pollution but not the noise of the tyres on the tarmac.</p> <p>We had some weaker data linked to the bypass many years ago. Families living near the bypass had more children going to special schools, wasnt a big enough number to publish but have always remembered this insight from a very astute colleague whose task was not initially bypass related but she spotted the trend in the data. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20973#post-361132 Thu, 02 Jun 2022 21:34:01 +0000 chdot 361132@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/02/traffic-noise-slows-childrens-memory-development-study-finds" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/02/traffic-noise-slows-childrens-memory-development-study-finds</a> </p>