{"id":547,"date":"2012-04-30T17:54:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T17:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/blog\/?p=547"},"modified":"2012-04-30T17:54:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T17:54:47","slug":"ambulance-audibility-quotient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/30\/ambulance-audibility-quotient\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambulance Audibility Quotient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-551\" title=\"1194985200266974918ambulanza_svg_hi\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/hl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/1194985200266974918ambulanza_svg_hi-300x153.png\" \/>I promise, this blog entry is neither here, nor there.\u00a0 Having traveled to countless cities around the United States and a good many abroad, I\u2019ve found Washington, DC leads the pack in one area and I wonder if any others have noticed this.\u00a0 Are our ambulances the most obtrusive and loudest?\u00a0 I\u2019ve conducted an extremely informal survey on this and concluded this must be a result of several \u00a0combined factors.\u00a0 For one, ambulances drive slower in DC than they do anywhere else.\u00a0 Whether this is due to traffic or an actual regulation which mandates their tepid pace, I\u2019m not sure, but it can take an ambulance a good three minutes to clear one city block.\u00a0 Secondly, I\u2019m very frequently on the phone when I\u2019m walking in DC which would make me keenly aware of not being able to hear myself think or communicate with the person on the other end of the phone.\u00a0 And finally, we just have more emergencies in DC, don\u2019t we. \u00a0We\u2019ve grown so immune to these blaring sirens that we hardly jump out of the way anymore \u2013 and isn\u2019t that one more reason that they can\u2019t clear the city block fast enough?\u00a0 Tips for DC drivers and walkers \u2013 get out of the way! \u00a0What more do they have to do to convince you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I promise, this blog entry is neither here, nor there.\u00a0 Having traveled to countless cities around the United States and a good many abroad, I\u2019ve found Washington, DC leads the pack in one area and I wonder if any others have noticed this.\u00a0 Are our ambulances the most obtrusive and loudest?\u00a0 I\u2019ve conducted an extremely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.3 - 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