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I wish they could run one with the carpeted floors and fabric seats.

• paunchy 3y ago
  It sounds like you've never sat down on a BART fabric seat only to discover it is wet. I won't miss the fabric seats.
  • dehrmann 3y ago
    I think that's what GP meant. I wish we lived in a world where we could have nice things.
    • musicale 3y ago
      Exactly - fabric seats and carpet are more comfortable and help with noise, but they always get trashed and are eventually removed.
      • presentation 3y ago
        Not here in Japan
        • Symbiote 3y ago
          London also has them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moquette https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moquette
          • StrauXX 3y ago
            Same with Austrian trains.
          • inferiorhuman 3y ago
            Sure, and Marin (Bay Area) also has fabric seats, but their public transit sees much lower ridership. It's hard to overstate how vile the old wool seats were on BART. It took the NY Times reporting that the wool covers harbored MRSA and other nasties to prompt the switch to vinyl.
• JumpCrisscross 3y ago
  > wish they could run one with the carpeted floors and fabric seats Oh dear god, you just brought back the horrors of a Southeast Ireland (Enniscorthy) pub’s carpeted fucking bathroom. You know you’re a pub. You know you’re in Ireland. And yet you chose carpeting laid in 1910 and decided every day thereafter “yeah, looks good.”
  • voidfunc 3y ago
    Carpeted bathrooms... I had a relative with a shag carpet in the bathroom. The cocaine must've been blowing hard in the 70s/80s for that decision to have made sense. I also had a carpeted bathroom in my first apartment. I don't know what the fuck the landlord was thinking.
    • iancmceachern 3y ago
      My wife and I once looked at a house that had a huge bathtub, sunken directly into the floor, in the center of the bathroom, surrounded by shag carpet, all the way up to the edge of the tub.
      • db48x 3y ago
        You wouldn’t want to step out on to a cold hard floor would you? Not when you have the option of a deep luxurious carpet instead.
        • jabl 3y ago
          After dealing with the inevitable mold problems, I'm sure you'd rather step on the cold hard floor.
          • db48x 3y ago
            A lovely luxuriously absorbent carpet to keep your feet warm and dry!
        • iancmceachern 3y ago