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That was such an insane thing to discover my first time on the BART. I’m sitting there thinking a catastrophic accident is about to occur, but everyone else is
by ketzo 6y ago
That was such an insane thing to discover my first time on the BART. I’m sitting there thinking a catastrophic accident is about to occur, but everyone else is just on their phones... oh, that’s just the screech!
- ljm 6y agoFrom a Londoner's perspective, this is giving me tortured flashbacks to travelling on the Jubilee Line. It's physically painful to hear once you start speeding up inside the tunnels.
- dijit 6y agoA lot of the lines are like that, especially once it’s summer and you can barely survive without having the windows down. Dangerously loud. Although I also have sensitive ears. :/
- rconti 6y agoWith the Paris Metro using rubber tires on being super quiet, every time I use another subway, it blows my mind that these awful noises are tolerated.
- leonroy 6y agoI travel on the Northern line on the London Underground to get to work and the sound of the trains nowdays hits 100dBA or more of extremely loud screeching: https://i.imgur.com/04YwBHJ.png https://i.imgur.com/04YwBHJ.png I went as far as lodging an official complaint and was told that to deal with capacity trains are running more often and faster than they have in the past, hence the increased noise. Furthermore due to the Northern Line having been built before environmental noise regulations were passed, it's exempted so Transport for London aren't planning on doing much about it. At the risk of sounding like a curmudgeon - between always on ear buds and mass transit noise we're risking a generation of kids suffering hearing loss well before their time.