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Addendum: The noise on Sunday night was from the Ironman event and not from the Alliant Center. I am told that Ironman calls out the number of each competitior as they cross the finish line until midnight. There were 106 finishers between 11 pm and midnight and 181 between 10 pm and 11 pm. A suggestion: Next year, turn off the amplification at 10 pm.
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Between outdoor concerts and the Ironman Triathlon, the city across the lake was pumping noise our way all weekend. The Ironman public address system worked very well. I knew what was going on at all times - starting at six freaking o'clock in the A.M.
A call to Monona PD established that they had received numerous complaints on Saturday morning, but because the noise emanated from Madison they had no authority to do anything.
To top it off, the Ironman felt compelled to alert us to the results by blasting it over the PA system (at Monona Terrace). These continued until midnight. On a Sunday night, a work night, a school night. Midnight.
I sent an email to County Executive Falk and Mayor D.C. late Sunday night. I await their reply. Tuesday evening: Still waiting.
I live a short block off the lake and atop Monona Ridge. Anyone else get annoyed by the noise?
Monday, September 08, 2008
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Heck YES!
ReplyDeleteMy wife-woke me up to ask who she should call....I said Madison PD about he noise...heck I do not know.
We shut the windows on Sat night...and then opened them and got blasted out of bed in the morning.
I mean-Robin seemed to not care when I e-mailed her...that may not be fair..
What I got from her was it is a quality of life issue for Dane County.
HECK< I could tell the songs they were playing on Sunday morning.
don't be such babies! If you want Madison to prosper, you have to put up with a little noise once in a while.
ReplyDeleteMadison didn't prosper before Iron Man??
ReplyDeleteAnd where do you reside? And why do you hate babies, hmmm?
"I mean-Robin seemed to not care when I e-mailed her...that may not be fair.."
ReplyDeleteRobin took a proactive role in making sure the county facility agheres to its noise and time limits. She lives almost next door to me, so she gets as much more of the noise as I do.
We could hear it loud and clear here by Monona Drive and Broadway. The Ironman was annoying, but it wouldn't have been so bad had the Roots Fest not been so loud the night before. There should be an either/or rule for loud events on the weekends--morning or night, not both.
ReplyDeleteI think the sunday night think was ridiculous, and should not be allowed. Once a year getting woken for the Iron Man, well, maybe, I dunno. It's not like they are raising money to end AIDS or World Hunger. It's a sport for their own pleasure.
ReplyDeleteI am a fan of the Ironman in Madison, but the organizers blast their speakers too loudly in the morning, aiming many of them out at the swimmers (and Monona beyond).
ReplyDeleteSunday night, not a concert... I think you (and I, over in the Frost Woods neighborhood) were hearing more Ironman. Finish line music and exhortations to cheer in the runners, especially as it gets close to the race cut-off at midnight.
"Robin took a proactive role in making sure the county facility agheres to its noise and time limits."
ReplyDeleteI think you know this, but their noise and time limits are NOT working for at least 8,000 people and need to be changed.
I mean -people were able to complain successfully about train horns in Madison and were able to get relief...for a time....no matter how stupid their request.
The decibel levels are unreasonable, for Dane County and the City of Madison.
ReplyDeleteI spoke with the Exec's chief of staff about the decibel level at outdoor concerts at the Alliant Center and he admitted that he did not understand how these levels are set. While Mr. DiCarlo does a good job of monitoring the decibel levels he knows they are too loud for the citizens outside the area of the center. The folks who pay to hear a concert should enjoy their product, but that enjoyment ought not cause injury to the interests of the overwhelming majority of the citizenry who do not wish to have these sounds thrust upon them and their neighbors.
Please set the decibel levels for the listening enjoyment of the concert goers, but not beyond that limit. Where others must suffer for their enjoyment the levels are unreasonable.
yeah, I think Iron Man was the Sunday night thing. Ridiculous. These people are pleasuring themselves. There's no excuse to wake people up at 6 am and keep them up until midnight. What can we do, Doug?
ReplyDelete"These people are pleasuring themselves."
ReplyDeleteWhoa! Hold on there. I think they are just swimming, running and biking, no plasuring themselves...
But, seriously, folks. I have emailed the county exec., mayor Dave c., the Greater Madison Convention & Visitors Bureau (GMCVB), and several county board supers. I would also suggest contacting the Wisc. Sports Development Corporation, which runs the Ironman.
I have only heard back from our county board super Robin, co. bd. super Stoebig, and Deb Archer at the GMCVB.
Oh for goodness sake, Doug, mind out of the gutter please? What I mean is that they are dong this for "fun" which, I think, is somewhat synonomous with pleasure, is it not? It serves no greater good to society except the tourism revenue, very little of which comes to our community.
ReplyDeleteMind out of the gutter?! Yoinks! You put it there with your loose talks about people "pleasuring themselves"!
ReplyDeleteActually, I think the event probably brings quite a bit of tourist money to the area, including our motels and restaurants. But even so, they don't get carte blanche - or shouldn't.
Citizens who live around Camp Randall were able to force the university to 1 or 2 concerts a year and with limits-as I recall.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, we need to do something?
Can we do something like that OR BLAST BACK AT THEM.
Writing only gest a list of dates and times-
The first song was Cold Play-blasted at 6:30 or 6:45 and then it went on and on all day long on Sunday for the second straight day.
I agree with the earlier poster they are pleasuring themseleves and AT our expense. This includes the people on Willow Island and they make it darn for us to pleasure ourselves:"
"Writing only gets a list of dates and times"...
ReplyDeleteYou need to contact the political leaders of Madison and Dane County and Monona and let them know that you are unhappy with the way these things are run. You might be surprised how much influence these contacts can have.
Fruit from the Grocery Store.
ReplyDeleteLive off of the fat of land my friend-seek the riches yourself.
What have those berries been sprayed with?
Not Berry, eh.?
I would hope you are not using corn syrup in this so called pie?
Henny Au natural' Penny
Henny, Put away the cooking sherry....
ReplyDeleteGrocery stores sell organic nowadays.
Yes, I am using no corn syrup, no corn liquor, no corn of any kind. It is not a corn pie, although that might be berry, berry good, too.
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art2843.asp
Perhaps the Monona Grove High School Marching Band needs to hold an annual "Salute to the Sunrise" benefit concert facing west on the eastern shores of Lake Monona some balmy Sunday morning in May or June?
ReplyDeleteOR HOLD a rock concert at MGHS on FB field (every darn weekend we can) AND not ask if anyone cares-that is basically what we ahve now.
ReplyDeleteOf course, of course-we would give them the dates.
So, how loud exactly was the Ironman? I'm a block off of the water, and didn't hear anything. Even when we walked around the lake in the afternoon (and heard the loudspeaker) it was hardly "loud", more like a low murmur. I'm not denying that people didn't hear *something*, but unless it was significantly louder at other places in Monona, I really don't think it was a big deal...
ReplyDeleteI live a block of the water too - near Schluter Beacher - and my windows were open that morning, and it was so loud I could actually hear parts of what the person with the megaphone, or whatever it was, was saying.
ReplyDeleteThe main problem was the very early start and late ending when there was no other noise.
ReplyDeleteI can say it was loud enough that a lot of people complained by calling the police and most people don't do that without reason.
It was loud enough at my house (a short block off the lake) that I thought someone was watching TV downstairs at 7:30 a.m. and kept my windows closed that night.
I'm not looking to kill these events just to see that the interests of Monona folks are taken into account.
Travis-
ReplyDeleteHow looud was it?
Cold Play at 6:40 am-who loud and clearly heard...and then so was the next song....
OH-and all those songs Saturday all day.
ok, that makes sense. as someone who used to live in NY, my idea of "noise" is something like:
ReplyDelete10 - car alarm going off outside your window
7 - jet going overhead
5 - neighbor's kids having a party
3 - tv on downstairs
1 - silence
guess i'm just getting used to what "loud" and "quiet" are. :)
Good point. It's relative. Spend a week Up North and when you come back Madison seems like a loud, hectic big city.
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