Can you hear less traffic?

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I'm a key worker, so still driving to work, and there is definitely less traffic on the roads.

But there is still a fairly steady stream of traffic and walkers and cyclists going past my house. DC are in the garden, and so I have an ear out, and I would say there is the same traffic noise outside that there always is at a weekend (I know strictly speaking it's not a weekend) Don't get me wrong, it's never massively busy, it's not a main road, people passing are likely to be local. But still, listening, you wouldn't know we are supposed to be limiting outings.

I see all this drone footage of completely empty streets in central London, but in my small town nothing really seems to have changed.

What's everyone else's experience, and what sort of place do you live in.

We live near a normally busy A road and walked over the motorway yesterday a bank Holiday it would normally be mental sunny day and one of the biggest tourism areas in the UK. Stood for 5 minutes saw 3 lorries and a car. It can be standing traffic normally. We also walked back down the A road and saw nothing.

Our daily walk to the park goes along a main road, very few cars but lots of ambulances, usually see a police car driving past the park, and then a few trucks and supermarket trucks. Buses keep going past but are usually empty.

We live 10mins from the station and I've hardly heard any trains.

I live on the outskirts of Liverpool, a stones throw away from a motorway and it is so quiet. We’re also under the flight path for both Liverpool and Manchester airports and there are literally no planes.

Dp drives to and from work and said that the roads are much quieter. The air feels fresher too.

I drive into Durham for work using the A1 and the Traffic has been steadily getting busier every day

Much, much less. We went for a walk yesterday that included crossing what is usually a very busy road - constant traffic, you have to wait for the traffic lights either end to give a break so you can cross. We didn't see a single car.

Yes I live on the very edge of a small town in the midlands, very very close to the M1 and five miles or so from East Midlands airport. It’s amazing now. There’s normally a constant hum of motorway traffic and planes over head. Now there’s just birdsong. It’s so peaceful.

From my kitchen window I can see the A1 and it's very very quiet nothing like it usually is ,last night I had to do an emergency dash to my daughter and going over the motorway we saw 2 lorries that's it ,by now it would be heaving and huge queues into the services but nothing at all

Hugely less traffic

We can cross the nearest main road at will ( useful when people avoiding)

. I am in a medium sized town within 2 miles of a heavily used trunk road and when this is over we mare moving somewhere miles away, the air quality is better. My asthma has gotten worse and worse over the years and now I know why!

Yes, we’re in London zone 3 and it is much quieter. The road outside is usually fairly busy but now it is like weekend early mornings all the time. Hardly any planes either. Air feels cleaner and views from local parks to central London are so much clearer. I’ll be glad when the lockdown ends but this is one aspect I will miss.

Hugely less traffic, and virtually no planes (we are under a flight path). I’m conscious of a lot of ambulance sirens, though. (London zone 2).

Live in a large village with no hospitals nearby and no essential manufacturing, the traffic noise is very significantly reduced. But I expect towns/villages with major hospitals and/or food manufacturing factories for instance are fairly unchanged. I did think there must be some schools carrying on pretty much as normal where they are in the locality of a major food factory? Not heard of this going on though, but I think some of the major bakeries for instance are based in reasonably small towns and probably employ a large % of the population.

There's some distribution round here but nothing essential that requires large numbers of staff.

much less traffic here. I live near a busy motorway and the hum was constant until now. We've also had deer running up our street. probably chased out of the local woods which are now mobbed

I live about a mile south of a busy motorway, with main roads less than half a mile away. Normally when outside we hear the A road traffic as it's always busy, and when the wind direction changes we hear the distant hum of the motorway. Now, it's really quiet, apart from the occasional siren, and no contrails in the sky. My dad lives on a main road in north London and said it's like going back to the 1950s.

There is less normal traffic but a lot more helicopter noise. But I live in London. Dh says there are definitely a lot less cars but even they are slowly increasing daily compared two weeks ago. Are keyworkers taking their cars more often? Instead of relying on tfl? A few London boroughs have made parking free for keyworkers. Dh himself is making good use of this. Driving to work instead of taking the tube.

We can see/hear the A303 from our house and it was so quiet over Easter weekend but it sounds back to normal today. DH said he saw lots of cars as well as delivery lorries, so presumably everyone's back to work today.

We don't normally hear much traffic anyway so not much difference really. On fine Sundays, we can usually hear screaming motorbikes from the main road if we are outside and that has definitely reduced.