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Probably the LOUDEST one in the world!!! Anybody does not agree? How much will it cost to lower the running noise? This is a growing public health concern. I don't know about you, but I am gradually losing my hearings over years of riding the NYC subways.
The growing health concern should be about the rats in the subway. I wrote the MTA once about seeing too many rats in the 14th Street and 1st avenue station, but they were dismissive about it. It was only since after hurricane Sandy and the trains being flooded that the problem was somewhat solved lol
Wear ear plugs. You can still hear (everything is just muted) or wear headphones with the music set low. Plug up your ears with you fingers when they're entering the tunnel and screeching the way they do. And I agree with what someone else said, it used to be a lot louder.
Or will that result in higher fares that we will pay so in essence we would be paying ourselves a settlement minus lawyer fees so in the end we would still lose money???
The growing health concern should be about the rats in the subway. I wrote the MTA once about seeing too many rats in the 14th Street and 1st avenue station, but they were dismissive about it. It was only since after hurricane Sandy and the trains being flooded that the problem was somewhat solved lol
You mean because they drowned? I would have thought all that water would have made it worse...escaping from the sewers and all the other hiding places.
You mean because they drowned? I would have thought all that water would have made it worse...escaping from the sewers and all the other hiding places.
One summer I lived at a place uptown Manhattan and it was so noisy at night that I thought to just sleep on the subway, or buy a sleeping bag to stay in Central Park. I am talking about people blasting loud music into the street and partying all night long, and then the jack hammers and construction dump trucks started from midnight until sunrise, then at sunrise the garbage trucks would come around.
Man, those jack hammers were no joke...
Just count your blessings that you only have to worry about the subways.
Some of it isn’t the traincars per se as it is the condition of the tracks where you have tracks that are somewhat misaligned with each other or have wider than ideal spacing between them. That accounts for the fairly regular clanging you sometimes hear as wheels pass through the same misalignment or damaged portion of track. That’s sweet, sweet mechanical energy of the trains moving to jarring motions and rumbling sounds. Part of the fix that’s happened in recent years to make things less loud is the program to continuously weld track pieces together.
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