A nearly seatless subway car debuted Monday in Boston – months before a similar pilot program launches in New York – and Beantown straphangers were unfazed.
“I haven’t gotten a seat in the last three months, so it makes no difference to me,” Richard Sullivan, commuting on Boston’s Red Line, said. “Besides, people who need seats can always get on a different car.”
The Daily News reported exclusively in August that NYC Transit next year plans a pilot program that goes further. It will be standing room only – literally – when the NYC transit runs some subway cars without any seats, hoping to squeeze more riders inside. Four cars on a 10-car train will have no seats during rush hours. Seats in those cars would be locked in the up position during peak travel times and returned to their normal position during off-peak times.
Subway bosses have not decided which line will get the no-seat cars – or when they might go into wider use. Most riders could care less whether they get a seat or not—they a usually rushing to get somewhere, not to sit around or sleep on the subway.
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January 31st, 2009 at 12:41 pm
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