Dr. Ted Rueter started Noise Free America: A Coalition to Promote Quiet while he was a political science professor at UCLA. “I found UCLA to be the loudest campus I had ever been to and Los Angeles to be the loudest city I had ever been to,” Dr. Rueter told the Boston Voyager back in 2017. “I was teaching a class on political advocacy. I recruited 14 students to work on reducing noise on campus. We called ourselves Noise Free UCLA. We wrote a letter to the chancellor, identifying 44 sources of unnecessary noise on campus. We met with three high-ranking administrators on campus; they agreed to make some changes to reduce noise. We also hosted a Los Angeles noise summit.” On today’s “Leonard Lopate at Large,” Dr. Rueter and Leonard talk about noise pollution in New York City, particularly that caused by motorcycles.