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All London Underground lines have cushioned, upholstered seats. You can even tell which line you’re on because each line has a unique fabric pattern known as a
by Reason077 7y ago
All London Underground lines have cushioned, upholstered seats. You can even tell which line you’re on because each line has a unique fabric pattern known as a “moquette”:
https://londonist.com/london/transport/all-the-tube-moquette-patterns-bitchily-critiqued https://londonist.com/london/transport/all-the-tube-moquette...
(The fabric does wear out eventually, but it seems relatively cheap and easy to replace. It’s rare to see a dirty or overly worn out seat)
Commuter trains into London often have carpeted floors, too, depending on the operator and type of train. It does make for a quieter, more civilised experience!
- meddlepal 7y agoThe Red Line in Boston has fabric seats too... they're great for soaking up homeless people's piss.
- jbattle 7y agoYeah the red line in Chicago used to have fabric seats too. There was one day someone had put ... some kind of liquid in every window seat. Every single stop people would get on the train, see the open seats and every one of us in an aisle seat would have to explain the story again. Sometimes you do gotta laugh
- slimginz 7y agoCTA still mostly has fabric seats on its train lines and nearly all busses. They started testing fully hard seats a few years back but people complained about sliding around, so they're moving to a hard seat and a fabric back these days to give people at least a little bit of a grip.
- Reason077 7y agoThe question you need to ask is, why are Boston's homeless urinating on Subway trains? Why don't they piss on the street like Londoners do?
- etblg 7y agoGets cold in winter
- osrec 7y agoThey are still fairly dirty. The pattern just hides it well: https://youtu.be/giU81hhoBYg https://youtu.be/giU81hhoBYg
- HeXetic 7y ago> each line has a unique fabric The article you linked explicitly disproves that. There are 15 lines but only 10 distinct fabrics.
- Reason077 7y agoWell, OK. But the rolling stock on those lines is (in some cases) shared between the lines. The same train could end up operating the Circle, District, or Hammersmith & City lines. Parts of the track are also shared between those same lines, so I guess TfL wanted some consistency.