My town's quiet hours for construction are pushing projects into the weekend.

Now Saturday mornings are noisier with all the early starts.

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Confess, I've been the one waking the block with a concrete saw on Saturday morning! Those weekday quiet hours leave us with no choice but to work weekends. My bad for the extra noise!

mark_rivera1mo ago

Man, @evac40, that's the perfect example of a rule making the exact problem it tried to fix. We see this everywhere! Quiet hours on weekdays just push all the loud work into Saturday mornings. It's like when a store closes early, so everyone rushes at the same time and causes a bigger crowd. The rule tries to make peace but ends up making everyone mad at each other instead. Your concrete saw is just the sound of that bad system at work.

luna8911mo ago

My neighbor's band thought weekdays were fine too, @mark_rivera, till the 6 AM drum solos started.