So, some smarty-pants at Columbia say that the subway is loud.  So loud that it may be causing people to lose there hearing.

Uhhh how about the people that have their iPods peaked out.  Few things are more aggrivating than people who have their iPods so loud that everyone around them has to listen to their crappy music.  So could the research be flawed?  Could it be that the subway isn’t really that loud, while instead it is just the increase in iPod usage?

Maybe.

But yeah, the trains are a little to loud most of the time.