‘I hate it’: Manchester commuters back ban on out-loud music on public transport

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1. It depresses me that we potentially have to legislate for common decency and manners, but welcome to the UK I guess

2. This means nothing without someone to enforce it…

   Stealing from shops is already illegal, yet I see it constantly now. What makes them think anyone will take any bit of notice of these new rules.

3. Being annoying shouldn’t be illegal, is loud music on a bus or train annoying? Sure but more annoying than a crying baby? Someone coughing every 30 seconds? Someone talking on the phone to loud? People are annoying thats part of life.

4. A grand fine will stop it pretty quick.

   You know what the problem is with kids playing music out loud? Firstly, there’s no bass… Second, they never listen to a full song! Why?!

   It’s a good approach… They’ll fine a handful of people and then everyone else will be like, *”a grand?! yeah, fk that… a set of headphones is less than a tenner in almost every shop I go into so I’ll get some of them instead..”*

5. I feel like it is the kind of thing that can be socially unacceptable but doesn’t necessarily need banning. Noises happen on transport. Obviously blaring out music is one thing but are they going to have guards poised waiting to fine people if an advert accidentally plays in the background or a ringtone goes off? People talk on trains too, than annoys me so I put earphones in. That is the reality a lot of the time with this country and “bans” is that the worst offenders just carry on, nothing really changes.

6. What’s the point when by the time you get off the train and contact the police they will be miles away and it will never be a priority for them

   Serious crimes like theft don’t even get investigated, how will this ever get attention

7. > Manchester commuters back ban on out-loud music on public transport

   Banning is not going far enough.

8. I have a friend who is senior in a finance role in the city. He’s a smart, educated man, yet he sees nothing wrong with playing videos out loud in trains, cafes and bars.

   I asked him once not to do it as I felt it was rude to other people nearby and honestly he couldn’t understand. He said there is other noise and it’s not a library and couldn’t grasp why I thought it was rude. He looked at me as if I had just told him wearing a white t-shirt was rude.

   I’ve seen no studies on this but I do believe that there’s a certain percentage of the population who just cannot comprehend they are being rude when out in public. Maybe they are slightly on a spectrum or maybe they hear slightly differently so can block out background noise I don’t know or maybe they see public space as an extension of their private space. I’m not a sociologist but it is remarkable talking to people about their behaviours.

   It isn’t anything new btw. I remember when phones were able to play music for the first time and buses were awful for a year or so with kids playing music.

   Edit: to the guy who said i don’t know what autism is. There are other things on a spectrum other than autism such as adhd, dyspraxia, aspergers etc hence why i specifically didn’t say autism and said “a spectrum” not “the autism spectrum”

   Further edit: he’s not a psychopath ffs. He’s a perfectly nice guy who doesn’t get playing loud music in public is annoying. Redditors really have to stop throwing out serious medical terms. I wager everyone has one thing they do in public that might be annoying to others and it doesn’t make them a full blown danger to society. He’s also not stupid.

9. It’s annoying, but an even bigger problem is that noise from phones can obstruct passengers from hearing important announcements. Like how are we meant to hear which stop is suspended when Little Timmy is playing tiktoks at 100% volume on the bus.

   Im not sure if I agree with fines as a deterrent though. £1000 is pretty steep I will admit, but will it *actually* be enforced? And if so, poor folks will be disproportionately hard-hit by this rule compared to people who can afford to scrape together enough money for a rare fine.

   This seems more like a “can you shut up” problem than a “I’m calling the cops” problem imo

10. This will completely impossible and impractical to impose. All UK public transport suffers massively from this. I am completely put off from using it and prefer to drive for this very reason

11. Preaching over loud speakers needs to stop also. All Religions. Just talk and explain. That’s it. No need to blast prayers over the air waves. Not everyone wants to listen to it.

12. As usual lots of people hating on teenagers.

    In my experience the majority of the time it’s either middle aged women having conversations on speaker phone, no Trish, I don’t give a shit about your boyfriend… and blokes in tracksuits who look like they haven’t had a shower in the last month.

    I often have to use buses during school finishing time and yeah, the school kids are loud but no worse than I was 20+ (although it feels like it was 200 years lol) years ago.

    I’ve never understood the hate teenagers get in the UK, it’s nothing new, it was the same when I was a teenager and it’s still the case today.

    More times than not the kids are not the problem, it’s usually adults who think that they have a licence to act like dicks simply because they are adults.

13. It’s annoying, but making it illegal won’t make it enforced or enforceable.

14. Attempt to quash antisocial behaviour by means of legislation is a slippery slope into encroaching on personal freedoms.

    EDIT: For the record, I really dislike people playing music or whatever on their phones, I just think this is not the way to approach it.

15. How are they going to enforce this? Will they have the balls to enforce it equally or will they avoid “teens” because they’re too aggressive?

16. It’s already illegal, they just need to enforce it

17. Whilst it’s annoying, we should not applaud clapping this behaviour sure it’s fine now but what about when it’s a 1k fine for having a flask of coffee on you. Or 1k fine for bringing a push bike on the train.

    You can hate something without removing personal freedoms.

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