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Posted by Mark S. Feinman on Thu Jan 10 17:02:32 2013, in response to Re: Ready for SMEE on the (6)?, posted by randyo on Tue Jan 8 13:18:43 2013. I don't think this was an urban myth...I wrote about this in The NYCTA in the 1980s:It could be said that the great subway seat debate (bench vs. bucket seats on R-62s) began on December 19th, 1984, when Councilwoman Carol Greitzer started her unofficial "First All-American Tush Tally". With a tape measure, she measured the derrieres of 23 men and women around the City Hall area ranging in size from 13 to 23 inches. The newly delivered R-62s were criticized for their small 17-inch bucket seat, and the TA was criticized for trying to spend $50,000 to figure out how to correct the "mistake". Ms. Greitzer was trying to illustrate a point: that the TA failed to do any research on the subject before providing Kawasaki with the specifications for the bucket seats. My source was "Sitting Bull: Tush comes to shove over TA's subway seats," New York Daily News, December 19th, 1984, page 17. --Mark |
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