Not bathing regularly or having a strong body odor may cost you up to a 500 dollar fine if city councilors in Honolulu, Hawaii, have their way.
Anyone who ride mass transit knows that you could end up standing or sitting beside someone who may not realize that they stink. This could be body odor, excessive perfume use, lingering cooking odors or even tobacco smoke odor. Regardless of the cause, the odors could cause great discomfort to some people. So, to tackle the problem, the councilors in Honolulu have put forth a bill forbidding people to,
“bring onto transit property odors that …read more

Could riding on the subway damage your hearing?
It’s possible with chronic exposure, say researchers from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and the University of Washington.

The researchers studied mass transit in New York City and found that Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) subways had the highest average noise levels of all mass transit in NYC. The noise levels recorded are high enough to increase the risk of noise-induced hearing loss.

Noise Levels on Mass Transit According to Study:
MTA subways: 80.4 decibels (dBA)
MTA subway platform: 102.1 dBA
Path trains: at 79.4 dBA
Tram: 77.0 dBA
To put these numbers in perspective, scientists note that normal …read more