Study lets us know there are still rats on the subwaysGood news: There are no gigantic, terrifying rat cities lurking in the darkness between subway stations. Bad news: That's because the rats are living in the walls of the train stations.

According to a two-year study, a collaboration between the MTA and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, there are no obvious solutions to the still-pervasive rat infestation. Apparently, people eating on the platforms, full trash cans, and litter on the tracks are definitely not helping the problem. Oh, and neither is the refuse room in each station, which is literally filled with garbage. Suddenly all the rats scurrying around the platform seem a little more like Templeton. A very real, frightening, disease-riddled Templeton.

Before you go getting your hopes up that maybe this is the first step toward rat eradication, consider the words former director of the city's Bureau of Pest Control, Solomon Peeples, told the New York Times: "We're no match for them, as far as I'm concerned. Man does not stand a chance." This study sounds like money well spent.