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Harms alleged
by some as reported in newspapers:
One study concludes:
 "Reliable
estimates of the direct costs due to ill-health from noise pollution
put this figure at as much as 2% of the gross domestic product of
a country.
"The psychological and social
cost is difficult to assess.
"Nervousness and depression are common psychological
reactions to noise.
"The eye has a very effective means of adjusting to light,
but people never get "used" to noise.
"Instead, they usually adjust their mental attitude rather
than hearing compensation. Subconscious frustrations can result
when noise is endured, but the body system cannot adjust to it.
"Noise-induced hearing loss
is a major problem because people are unaware of its warning signs
and effects until it is too late.
In some jurisdiction
"License must be obtained by all parties intending to use loudspeakers
or public address system for any occasion.
Duty of Proving Harm
As the alleged infringement of passengers' rights did not occur
before 1997 (correct us if wrong), it is our position that it is
the bus operators' duties
to prove their bringing on Roadshow, M-Channel broadcasts to public
buses does not cause harm and does not carry any long-term adverse
effect to passengers.
It goes therefore to require the bus companies to disprove the
absence of harms once allegation of harms has taken place.
And, as the Governor and
the Trustee of the welfare of the people of Hong Kong, the Hong
Kong Government has a positive duty to, once alerted the harm or
the potential harms, assess the situation and to make remedial actions
to correct wrongs or potential wrongs committed by parties created
under its laws, here the franchised bus operators.
See
also-----> 侵犯香港人權法
Bus companies tearing apart Hong Kong's Bill
of Rights Ordinance
See also --> Infringement
under the International Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights
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