Attn: Mayor Bloomberg- TACKLE NOISE POLLUTION before you say adios to City Hall!!!

I live in a New York City neighborhood that is VERY top-heavy with immigrants from the Caribbean with a very high rate of welfare recipients...still they are immigrants with cars. It's amazing how many people in this neighborhood have cars, even though cars in NYC are expensive (taxes, insurance, gas, garage) and the need for a car in Manhattan is neglible. Most people get by perfectly fine with public transit and the occasional taxi. CAR ALARMS: As I type this, another car alarm has started to BLARE it's shrill, non-stop beeping just under my window. It will go on for quite awhile because the owners may be able to afford a car in New York City, but they don't have the common sense to go to a mechanic and get the alarm adjusted for city streets. An alarm in your suburban driveway is OK...it will truly get your attention if somebody is trying to pilfer your car. But in the streets of New York City, it barely gets any attention, except scowls of pedestrians wishing the car were being stolen so the offending noise would be removed. Most people don't care and SO MANY alarms go off all day and all night that hardly anyone blinks let alone rushes to the window to call the police. This city is noisy enough without scores of cars with too-senstive alarms that go off every time a loud car without a muffler blows down the block or a clap of thunder sets it off. Mayor Bloomberg is always trying to manage everything in our lives from banning smoking EVERYwhere to now banning large soft-drinks (they make you fat) to re-doing traffic patterns thru the city to make more bike-paths (for a city with very few bikes during business hours) and make more traffic instead of less. He's created all these "pedestrian plazas" so fat tourists in stretch pants and flip-flops can sit in cheap chairs instead of go inside somewhere and spend money. If he really wants to make a change in our quality of life in New York, he should tackle the noise problem. Every idiot who feels like blaring their horns (mostly taxis) does so constantly even though allegedly there are laws with stiff penalties against this (I've never seen ANYbody get a ticket for honking their horn). How can you change this? Since it's mostly taxis blaring their way thru the city streets, simply add a fee ($1? $2?) to his meter every time he honks without any real need. Don't make the passenger pay, just deduct the cost from the money the driver makes at the end of the day. Watch how quickly they learn to stop blowing their horns for no reason except because they are over-grown brats with short tempers. Make them pay...with computerized meters today in every taxi it could be done.... just figure out a way to connect the horn with the meter. If there's a legitimate reason (avoiding an accident, OK, they can always protest at the DMV)...but the vast majority of horn-blowing in the big city is because of short-tempered big babies who are simply venting their frustration and trying to scare people out of their way. People reading this blog in small towns or suburban neighborhoods who are laughing obviously have never lived in a big city. WIth no thought to what time of day or night it is, or what type of street they are on (commercial or residential) cab drivers, instead of merely using their brakes to gently avoid problems, make the decision to keep going at full speed and blast everyone in their way with horns to GET OUT OF THEIR SHORT-TEMPERED way! Sometimes in my apt. when I hear drivers blaring away, it sounds like the cacaphony of babies in their crib, WAILING for attention...."WAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!" The sound then reverberates off all the brick and mortar and the whole neighborhood echoes with the obnoxious attitude of one pissed off driver. After thousands of horns going off, you'd think I would be "immune" to the noise, but it still irks me and makes me jumpy...and I don't think I am alone. How about it, Mayor Bloomberg? NOISE POLLUTION!