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I still can't believe how long BART had fabric seats and carpeted trains. I think they finally have removed all of those cars from service.
by bradgessler 3y ago
I still can't believe how long BART had fabric seats and carpeted trains. I think they finally have removed all of those cars from service.
- switch007 3y agoWe love our fabric on trains in the UK. It’s disgusting. Carpet gets immediately ruined with beer and vomit, as most trains turn in to parties on wheels a lot of the time. Even the brand new Elizabeth Line in London has fabric seats. We just can’t shake our traditions in the face of obvious hygiene sense.
- Muromec 3y agoI can’t fail to notice that not vomiting on a train isn’t even considered.
- _nalply 3y agoHaha, this sentence has four negations.
- ggambetta 3y agoHave you ever taken the Night Tube? :(
- switch007 3y agoIn an ideal world, of course. It's illegal to be intoxicated on the railway (and on the TfL network in London, carrying open alcohol containers and drinking alcohol is banned), but enforcement is very, very low. It would require a huge cultural change to alcohol in this country which nobody seems willing to embrace. Hilariously we also have "beer trail" services and routes, specifically designed to promote a pub crawl using trains. We really do have bad relationship with alcohol in the UK.
- noelwelsh 3y agoThe fabric on the London Underground is considered a design icon, to the extent the fabric is sold to the public: https://www.ltmuseumshop.co.uk/authentic-moquette-fabric-by-the-metre https://www.ltmuseumshop.co.uk/authentic-moquette-fabric-by-... You protest too much.
- switch007 3y agoThe people who love it so much can buy it instead of insisting it be installed on the trains.
- bradgessler 3y agoOr somebody should sell pants made out of the same material to these patrons.
- rjmunro 3y agoI can't stand the hard plastic seats of US train services and busses. The UK seats are so much nicer. It's really not disgusting.
- throwaway2037 3y agoCommuter rail trains in the US frequently have non-hard (cloth / fake leather material) seats.
- ShadowBanThis01 3y agoAnd I can't believe that NEWLY-DEPLOYED trains in L.A. have CLOTH seats. I saw these on day one and said, WTF, whose idea was this? And sure enough, today these trains are rolling diapers. No way would I ever sit on one of these things. The level of stupidity here is just unbelievable.
- seszett 3y agoBut I don't understand, Paris doesn't have a reputation for cleanliness and the cloth seats of the metro aren't especially disgusting. Trains around the world also have fabric seats obviously, because nobody wants to spend hours sitting on hard plastic. There are always people doing disgusting things wherever they are but they are such a minority that it doesn't really affect the everyday experience of others in general. Maybe you only had a few bad experiences?
- kortilla 3y agoLA is also filled with homeless people who have drug problems.
- mnd999 3y agoSo fix _that_ problem
- local_crmdgeon 3y agoWe're trying! We're giving them money, tents, and we no longer prosecute drug crime. Soon, 100% of LA will be homeless and the problem will be fixed.
- brightlancer 3y agoIf someone puked on a train in Paris, what would happen? If someone got on the train and started smoking drugs off tinfoil, what would happen? In many cities in the US, the answer is _nothing_. I've ridden commuter buses in the US that had cloth seats and commuter trains that had soft plastic-like seats, and they were quite nice -- but they also cost twice or more as much as a regular bus/ train ride. That price cuts down on certain behaviors.
- climb_stealth 3y agoMaybe this is an ignorant question, but what else would the seats be covered with? In all the public transport I have witnessed in EU and AU the seats have always been covered in some kind of fabric. Though carpet on the ground seems odd and I have never seen that before. I remember when I was young we would slap the seats on the bus and release big horrible clouds of dust.
- bradgessler 3y agoAnything that can be cleaned with a pressure washer is ideal.
- justsomehnguy 3y agoAny plastic, like PVC.
- culopatin 3y agoJust bare plastic/metal, vinyl, some heavy duty leather mock. In Buenos Aires in the 2000s they bought some old trains from Japan and they had red velvet seats. They were not as bad as you think considering they were used.
- rsynnott 3y agoCarpeting seems unusual, but it's pretty common for public transport to have fabric seats.