Not sure where you have been hiding, but males have been wreaking havoc on womens sport for the last few years, and no one else seems to have taken this stance.
you wait at the border until the regular bus comes to pick you up and take you across the bridge. you can also take a cross border bus from the bus station.
I have lived in Bangkok since 1996 most of it on this soi. I'm hardly bothered by ambient noise. This werid earworm is, as I mentioned cruel and unusual.
And its still going strong.