If Skyscrapers, apartment buildings and other multi-story dwellings are to be the iconic living situation of those who reside in cities, it is only logical that the Bus would be the most used form of transportation to get around. I live one block from a public school, I work at another, and live across the street from an MTA Bus stop in Queens. I've been exposed to the very different noises put out by these engines and have almost made it a science identifying them.
As I exited my house early this morning listening for a cue, all I could hear drowning everything else were the very distinct sounds coming from very distinct buses! I have appreciated the sound of the MTA buses for years. The newer ones go something futuristic like "Chu-u-u-u-u-uuuu." I might liken the MTA bus to the drummer in a three piece band. School buses are definitely the guitar in this automotive symphony. They have a much more aggressive, old school engine-y sound to them: "Hrmmm-vrmm-mmm.....creeeak." Garbage trucks are also quite defined, if creepy. They have a constant "hisssssss" that emits out of their rear end and can be heard from several yards away and indoors, too! Wether it's the air pressurized mechanics or just the smell, it is admitedly a sound that chills my spine. Most other miscellaneous buses like Access-a-ride are generally uninteresting, reverberating a quiet, bass-like "HummMMMmm." While different sorts of buses operate in all sorts of places over the world; I feel these automobiles only in unison truly present city life as it is.
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