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Goodbye to the family seating. I have a lot of good memories riding with my family and friends in those living room like areas. I’m a little sad those are goin

Goodbye to the family seating. I have a lot of good memories riding with my family and friends in those living room like areas. I’m a little sad those are going away.

lobsterthief 3y ago
It was great until someone really sketchy sat across from you. I remember riding during the pandemic and some guy sat across from me and started smoking crack. I guess that could happen with any seating arrangement, but it was particularly uncomfortable sitting right across from me and facing me. That’s a bigger problem than seating arrangement I guess.
- ericmcer 3y ago
  The original Bart had wool seats and carpet. It is too bad that we need vinyl everything now or people will destroy it.
  - kgermino 3y ago
    You don’t have to be intentionally destructive to destroy fabric seats on a train. The number of peoples moving through every day (especially coming in from outside) will do a lot of damage on its own
    - rangestransform 3y ago
      japanese metro trains with crazy high ridership numbers still have fabric seats (the yamanote line in Tokyo for sure), with swift and certain enforcement of existing rules, the US could have nice things again too
      - hinoki 3y ago
        Sometimes you still get sketchy passengers sitting across from you: https://twitter.com/PrectiveGallery/status/1766770987813769576 https://twitter.com/PrectiveGallery/status/17667709878137695... (Tweet about bedbugs on the yamanote line)
  - dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
    Bedbugs love fabric for hiding…many good reasons for the switch.