@anna Risking being a mansplainer to give a recommendation: (Active) noise cancelling headphones made public transport a lot more enojoyable for me. Just having a podcast or some music (doesn't need to be loud or anything) together with the ANC removes the basically all environmental noise. Also very nice for other situation with potentially many people or annoying background music like e.g. grocery shopping. If you've never tried that, I highly encourage you to give it a try. And sorry if that is obvious to you/has been recommended many times before. Just trying to be helpful