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rj3 | 12:05 PM |
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Ansel Barnum is one of the greatest names ever. However, the answer to his question seems a forgone conclusion. I think that any transit agency would conclude that 287 million could be better spent increasing efficiency than reducing noise (unless, of course, riders were regularly leaving stations with their ears bleeding).
Ms. Schapiro's suggestion that MTA should have started with cell phone towers is, in my opinion, absurd. I'd love it if they tore down the cell relays in the DC metro. I hate it when I'm enjoying my paper going to or from work and some jackass is running his mouth into his mobile.
rje: Computers don't get high or drunk, but they do crash and get infected. As for hearing damage, this is not my own subjective opinion. The NYTimes story, "Subways Are Noisy, Study Finds, To the Point of Being Harmful" (11/1/03) showed just this. Of course, if you've habituated to the noise, you won't be bothered by it, especially if your hearing has been damaged ("What?"). But try visiting a city like Paris that has a wonderfully quiet metro. Oh, it's also clean, another foreign feature of the NYC subway that I would redress long before speed.
chris: For a name that's cost 27 years of repronouncing and respelling, it's heartening to hear a reaction that's laudatory rather than repetitive.
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