Ward 3 city councillor Rino Bortolin is asking Windsor police to step up enforcement when it comes to loud vehicles.
Bortolin made the request on Wednesday at the Windsor Police Services Board Meeting and says police are willing and want to enforce the noise complaints
"If police are able, they can even do enforcement, blitzes by just camping out at an intersection one night and literally waiting for it to happen because I've seen it and heard it myself and it can be very distributing to the residents in the area," says Bortolin.
He says there are more complaints in the summer months.
"It's heavier with the motorcycles but also with the cars and you'll see it at specific intersections where they are potentially looking at a long stretch ahead of them," says Bortolin. "So a lot of the complaints I get come from the intersection at Tecumseh and Ouellette especially if you're heading south."
According to Bortolin, many of the complaints have focused on the intersection of Ouellette and Tecumseh.
"Mostly on the weekends it happens and a lot late at night," says Bortolin. "So we're looking at midnight, 1am, 2am where it's happening all the time so we want to make sure that we have a handle on it and that the general public knows it's not acceptable behaviour."
If you do have a vehicle noise complaint, you’re asked to to call the Windsor police non-emergency line.
As heard on AM800 news in May, city council amended its noise bylaw and at the time, ward 6 councillor Joanne Gignac pushed for the amendment after receiving complaints from residents about noisy vehicles.
The approved amendment now allows tickets to be issued for everything from vehicles with noisy mufflers, revving engines or even vehicles playing loud music.
Tecumseh is also working with OPP in that community to try and curb the amount of noisy vehicles in the municipality.