When looking for an apartment, it's important to find a location that's near mass transit. For the lucky apartment dwellers in one city in China, they happen to be lucky enough to live in mass transit. That’s the case in Chongqing, China, where an apartment building has a train running through it. Not only does the light rail passenger train pass through the 19-story residential building, it also has a transit stop there. Residents can just go to the 6th through 8th floors to catch a ride. Chongqing, located in southeast China, is a sprawling metropolis packed with 49 million residents, so architects and city planners have gotten really creative in making transportation and residential projects coexist in China’s so-called “Mountain City.” What’s surprising is that residents who have been interviewed say that noise from the train is not an issue. As a matter of fact, it seems that the noise generated by vehicles on the street is actually louder than the noise made by the train passing through the building. Support structures of the building are separated from the pillars of the rail, so the building doesn’t feel the intensity of the vibrations coming from the train. In fact, the train only produces 75.8 decibels of sound (about the same as a vacuum cleaner) because the train runs on rubber tires with air suspension on them.
