Not a New Problem..

To prevent traffic congestion, Julius Caesar banned wheeled traffic from the center of Rome during the day,
Sadly for him and his fellow Romans,
the decree created intense noise pollution at night,
" with wood or iron-shod cartwheels rumbling over the stone paveing blocks."
( The City In History, by Lewis Mumford )

More then a century later, the poet Juvenal complained that noise condemned Romans to everlasting insomnia.
By the 16th century , England's capital , London had a bustling metropolis. "

The first thing that must have struck most visitors,
" writes Alison Plowden, author of Elizabethan England ,
" was the din; clatter and hammering from a thousand workshops,
the rumble and squeak of cartwheels , the lowing of cattle being driven to market,
the raucous cries of street vendors proclaiming their wares."