Good neighbors and thoughtful visitors keep their noise to themselves. Good neighbors don’t do laps around Moab while they rev their engines with illegally modified mufflers. Respectful visitors don’t roar through town and the surrounding backcountry with offroad vehicles designed to be LOUD.
One UTV parts vendor even boasts that its aftermarket muffler delete for a Can-Am X3 UTV “is built to be LOUD, ringing in at 115 DB’s at 4k RPM’s.” 115 decibels is comparable to a loud rock concert. Even the unmodified 95 decibels is as loud as a jackhammer at 50 feet.
Another vendor sells a silencer for UTVs that is easy to install and remove. The vendor actually promotes the silencer’s easy removal for the times you want to “have fun being loud.”
Good neighbors and respectful visitors don’t assault residents, visitors, and wildlife with unnecessary racket. They don’t litter the soundscape with their noise trash.
Enforcing the motor vehicle noise provisions of the two year old city and county noise ordinances is long overdue.
Pete Gross
Moab
