As of Tuesday and moving forward, speed wont be the only thing drivers and motorcyclists will need to keep an eye on in Toronto.
Police and bylaw officers will be cracking down on excessive noise.
Mayor John Tory made the announcement Monday night in Yorkville, a high traffic area for noise complaints.
"Noise that is caused by vehicles,especially people who are deliberately revving their engines and otherwise modifying their equipment, to create a excessive level of noise that is disrupting the lives of people who live in the city," Tory said.
Starting October 1st, bylaw officers will be given greater power to write tickets for noise and a dedicated team of 24 officers will work 20-hour days, 7 days a week to deal with the issue.
In the meantime, Toronto Police officers will be handing out tickets to offenders under the highway traffic act.
Superintendent Scott Baptiste said, "for improper muffler, unnecessary noise, those types of tickets are $110. There's also a ticket for noise under the Toronto bylaw and it's $155.
But how exactly and correctly will police and bylaw officers be able to gauge a proper level of noise, versus an extreme amount?
Rod Jones, Director of bylaw enforcement for the city, said they are working with a sound engineering firm to create a manual to be able to use the new tools that the bylaw provides, to legally withstand challenges in court.
"In sound sort of engineering terms, we're going more to a quantifiable noise reading. The bylaw sets out certain decibel readings. We'll have the ability to read that, record it and that will be the red light, green light if you will, of whether or not someone's in compliance with the noise bylaw."
Mayor Tory said the city receives about 11,000 noise complaints annually for things like construction and dogs barking, but only a few hundred relate to vehicle noise.
With files from Tiffany Hendsbee