Dec. 2, 2025 8 AM PT
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” (“Wealthy California coastal city bans pickleball, saying it ‘turned into a madhouse,’” Nov. 26). However what about lawnmowers, leaf blowers and people vehicles with the flowery motors that rev like they’re going 100 mph when going 15?
We’ve tried to ban gasoline leaf blowers due to their emissions and since the electrical ones are quieter. However the gasoline leaf blowers hold going, in yard after yard, day after day, typically blowing and blaring to get a single moist leaf from a entrance yard into the street.
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’ll be able to’t play pickleball with out elevating a racket.
Michael Galbraith, Lynwood
