Weirs Beacher

The noise is terrible and I do not know why it is tolerated. It seems like the law book is tossed out the window for a week and it is a free-for-all. If your car has a noisy muffler you get a defective equipment ticket and a set period of time to get it fixed. If you own a motorcycle, you can remove the muffler completely and the police do nothing. If there are any policeman who read this forum, can you explain this so we'll all understand? The bike noise is bad enough all summer but it is deafening during bike week. Try to sleep with the windows open when you have jerks tearing up the stretch of Route 3 from the Weirs sign to the old Brickyard on their bikes running straight pipes. When you can still hear a bike that is now over a mile away, that's a problem.

I have some questions for the lawyers on the forum:

1.Is closing the Weirs bridge to 4-wheel traffic and forcing residents to drive miles out of their way even legal? I thought Route 3 was a state road and not a city street.

2. Could I save gas receipts and submit them to the city for the extra miles I have to drive to get home because they closed the bridge?

3. Do the towns or state have any noise laws that apply to vehicles other than cars? Maybe I should put straight pipes on my new car and argue the lack of enforcement of motorcycle noise as a precedent for my being able to do the same.

Surely this will be flamed but there are many of us living in the Weirs vicinity that feel the same. The event is like an invasion and occupation by foreign forces and we're tired of it. How can any sane person say this is a good thing? I don't buy the "it brings in tourists" line. We're losing more than we can possibly gain.