To the editor: Workers author Hannah Fry’s article on Carmel-by-the-Sea banning pickleball from its public tennis courts quotes somebody as saying, “Pickleball is the primary main noise air pollution to hit the suburbs” (“Rich California coastal metropolis bans pickleball, saying it ‘became a madhouse,’” Nov. 26). However what about lawnmowers, leaf blowers and people vehicles with the flamboyant motors that rev like they’re going 100 mph when going 15?
We’ve tried to ban fuel leaf blowers due to their emissions and since the electrical ones are quieter. However the fuel leaf blowers maintain going, in yard after yard, day after day, generally blowing and blaring to get a single moist leaf from a entrance yard into the highway.
I want us all luck convincing everybody — pickleball gamers, neighbors and drivers — that pointless noise simply makes any second a lot worse than it must be. Let’s give thanks for a quiet second, and let’s make extra of them.
Dana Cairns Watson, Los Angeles
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To the editor: You possibly can’t play pickleball with out elevating a racket.
Michael Galbraith, Lynwood
