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We 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
by switch007 3y ago
We 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.