There wasn’t enough room at the Old Mill Inn for a meeting Thursday night between the TTC and residents complaining of increased subway vibration.

More than 100 people who live along the Bloor subway line squeezed into a room to hear the TTC’s plan to address significant increases in vibration in homes around the Keele and Jane stations.

TTC-commissioned reports by Aercoustics Engineering Ltd. concluded in July that deteriorating wheels and rails have increased vibrations four-fold since 2000 at Jane, and three-fold since 2005 at Keele.

“When I moved in six years ago, we never heard anything,” said Kirk Lum, who lives near the Keele station. “Now glasses rattle in our cupboards.”

Lum, 48, has twin 3-year-old daughters and said the vibrations keep them awake at night. He plays white noise or ocean sounds to mask the racket. “It works for one of them. The other is a light sleeper.”

Paul Grajauskas, 52, has been living near the Jane station for seven years and agreed the vibrations never bothered him before.

“Now I don’t need an alarm clock in the morning because the first train at 6 a.m. wakes me up,” said Grajauskas.

TTC chair Karen Stintz, CEO Andy Byford and deputy chief of TTC operations Jim Teeple attended the meeting along with area councillor Sarah Doucette and Aercoustics representatives. Marc Bracken of Aercoustics said with proper maintenance, the vibrations can be brought back to the livable levels of seven years ago.

Teeple said over the next year the TTC will begin grinding the corrugated rails, fixing defective wheels and replacing some rails. But he did not specify any completion dates.

“I have skepticism that they’ll be able to do it because we’ve been complaining about this for at least six years,” said Lucio Milanovich, who lives near the Royal York station. “I think they’re lying to us.”

Byford said the TTC now knows what it must do to fix the problem and will get it done as fast as possible.

“I’m not going to stand here and say we’re going to eradicate all the noise,” said Byford, adding there’s no simple solution. “It’s going to take some time.”

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An irritated Doucette said “the timelines are too broad” and she wants “definite months.”

Byford agreed, saying he will “make damn sure we give these people a specific date as soon as we get one.”