Different EU city here, exact same experience. People tune their shitty 25cc motorcycles to sound like a jet engine, people tune their shitty 1200cc cars to sound like a jet engine, and that's 99% of all vehicle-related noise right there.
I live next to a highway on-ramp. The motorcycles are the worst, some of them are so loud while accelerating that it is impossible to have a conversation on my yard, over a hundred meters away.
The city is now investing tens of millions of euros to retrofit a noise barrier to protect our neighborhood. I think our house surfers the most from the noise. Yet - if it only wasn't for those loud motorcycles I would think the noise barrier is unnecessary. It would be much more cost effective to set and enforce noise pollution rules than to build expensive noise protection infrastructure everywhere where people live close to roads.
