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2 Responses to Subway Noise Dangerous for Riders’ Health

  1. Systematicvisionary says:
    May 16, 2025 at 1:49 pm

    First of all, some of the noise presented in the video is from cars, obviously. Cars are the number one reason for noisy cities. Second, the NYC subway is one of the most outdated and poorly maintained subways in the world. Of course it is loud. It lacks basically any new technological noise inuslation improvements that have been made in the international rail industry since the 1920s. That said, true urbanists are against subways and for surface level public transport like light rail and trams. Light rail and trams are significantly quiter than roads, that have the same capacity. NYC is mainly as loud as it is, because of the car traffic. Americans are trying to avoid their cities, because of the traffic. That’s why they flee to suburbs, where they live on cul-de-sac streets with little traffic, where their children can play in the streets. Something you would never see in an American city, but which is much more common in cities overseas.

  2. LazyReader says:
    May 16, 2025 at 4:22 pm

    How loud is auto traffic?

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