{"id":65223,"date":"2015-01-19T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/911-noise-controls-a-good-start\/"},"modified":"2015-01-19T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T01:43:56","slug":"911-noise-controls-a-good-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2015\/01\/19\/911-noise-controls-a-good-start\/","title":{"rendered":"911 noise controls &#8220;a good start&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Dominican Otolaryngology Society spokesman William Aude has described the government&#8217;s decision to entrust the task of combating noise pollution to the 911 Emergency Line as &#8220;timid.&#8221; He said that the initiative is a start, but the authorities are not doing their job when it comes to controlling noise. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Neither the Ministry of Interior and Police, nor Public Health nor the government are tackling the problem as they should,&#8221; he said. He said the greatest damage is from noise generated by vehicles on city streets. <\/p>\n<p> Aude, nevertheless, praised the initiative and said he hoped it would help change the existing culture. In the Dominican Republic, many drivers overuse their vehicles&#8217; horns, which increases noise pollution to very high levels. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"9Q5l9Z4CBO\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/eldia.com.do\/sociedad-ve-timida-medida-sobre-ruidos\/\">Sociedad ve t\u00edmida medida sobre ruidos<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#171;Sociedad ve t\u00edmida medida sobre ruidos&#187; &#8212; El D\u00eda\" src=\"https:\/\/eldia.com.do\/sociedad-ve-timida-medida-sobre-ruidos\/embed\/#?secret=9Q5l9Z4CBO\" data-secret=\"9Q5l9Z4CBO\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominican Otolaryngology Society spokesman William Aude has described the government&#8217;s decision to entrust the task of combating noise pollution to the 911 Emergency Line as &#8220;timid.&#8221; He said that the initiative is a start, but the authorities are not doing their job when it comes to controlling noise. &#8220;Neither the Ministry of Interior and Police, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2015\/01\/19\/911-noise-controls-a-good-start\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[234,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}