Charlotte can’t sleep.
Phone calls and email complaints have poured in from across the city over noisy cars that businesses say have cost them money and residents say have cost them their peace, according to city leaders. The City Council is considering new enforcement techniques to help curb the racket — or at least identify hot spots.
“These are very loud cars, and it reverberates all around the neighborhood. And I think the important thing, too, is it creates an atmosphere of unease. Like, you hear that noise, and it’s scary aside from just being irritating,” councilman Ed Driggs said during a safety committee meeting on Monday. “Our failure to rein that in … can be perceived as an inability on our part to protect quality of life for our citizens.”…