Metro’s official line about the music’s volume.
There is a clear disconnect between what transit riders and the unhoused are experiencing in the subterranean confines of the station and L.A. A trip aboveground with a handheld dB meter found the ambient street noise - street vendors chatting, kids playing and laughing, buses whooshing by - hovering at an average of 72 dB. Sotero also said the music in the station is quieter than walking on the sidewalk outside the station, which he said exceeds 80 dB.
Metro spokesperson Dave Sotero wrote that “the music is not loud” at MacArthur Park, saying the compositions inside the station are being played at 72 dB.Ī handheld meter registered certain musical phrases at 73 dB, but rarely - it was typically much louder than that. riders bail on Metro trains amid ‘horror’ of deadly drug overdoses, crimeĬommuters have abandoned large swaths of a Los Angeles Metro train system plagued by crime and the scourge of drugs.
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