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	Case # 1- The new San Francisco Muni electric buses.-Here is the story of how one of my heroes all of a sudden became one of my worse sound violators. Find out here how that happened. * If you want to download the "Flyer" on this issue in PDF format, click here! * The Survey on the SFMuni can be download in PDF format by clicking here! Case # 2- Brakes that produce noises- Taxi cars, private cars and trucks that pass thorough with their whistling or squeaking brakes, ---What torture!!!, It is totally out of control. I have been asking this question to myself:---" Why the San Francisco Taxi Cabs are making so much noises when they use the brakes and who are the responsible for this type of sound abuse violation? Here it is what I found out from my research on the subject. Case # 3- Car alarms that produce noises. 99.9% of alarms installed in cars end up to go off as a "false alarm." Car alarms have been used to harass the neighbors at any time. Because of an unruly industry, these alarms are installed with special and intermittently noises that goes off and is hard to catch. Their action goes unpunished and allow them to run free to do over and over. Case # 4- The motorcycles with their modified mufflers and their urge for speed inside city limits. - Don't you love motorcycles? I am from the motorcycle generation and I find it beautiful and sexy. However we all have a problem with some of the drivers that ride them. Our major issue is with their illegal and noisy mufflers that blow our habitats and the neighborhoods air space sending harmful emissions into the air. In addition, their urge for speed endangering and terrorizing everyone. Isn't a time for these events to stop?. Case #5- Bad constructed and unfitted streets and sidewalks sewer or utilities lids. Follow this issue as it happens and judge for yourself how hard is to dealt with city workers and how long does they take to respond to our citizen requests. Case #6- Stop Sign Disputes- Follow this issue as it happens and judge for yourself how hard is to dealt with some small and uneducated city drivers and how unattended these events goes from the eyes of the authorities.