How to get a quiet life back on track

Every night, I struggle to fall asleep because of the maddening noise from subway Line 13. Getting to sleep is torture instead of a joy for me and my family.

It's not rare to find people suffering from noise pollution because many public transport projects have been built near residential communities. City planners and subway builders should try every means at their disposal to keep noise at reasonable levels before they start to build a subway line. But they apparently often fail to do so.

Researchers from the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle have found that exposure to excessive noise for long periods of time may pose a threat to people's hearing, even leading to noise-induced hearing loss.