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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Sun Nov 26 12:21:14 2017, in response to Tell me this ain't the stupidest idea the Transit Authority ever came up with, posted by Jeff Rosen on Sat Nov 25 21:30:50 2017. They might as well take all the seats out so more people can stand.It's been tried. Published: January 26, 1956 Copyright © The New York Times NOW THE SEATLESS TRAIN? We have seen a good many ingenious improvements suggested for the Times Square-Grand. Central subway shuttle in our day. But we had not expected to live long enough to hear a transit chairman propose that, for the convenience of the public, all seats be removed from the subway cars. In the old days, of course, the railroad ideal was a seat for every rider. But now, since there are obviously too few seats, the cure is to make them still fewer until there are none. Thus the commonly heard complaint that people are herded into the subway trains like 'cattle will receive new substantiation; they will ride standing like cattle too. Chairman Patterson of the Transit Authority is the author of this new reform, and he admits he has not yet convinced his fellow-members of the authority. He sees only slight inconvenience to passengers in the two-minute shuttle run. But to- the two-minute running time must be added a possible standing and loading time averaging nearly three minutes, in a recent survey, and ranging upward to nearly six minutes maximum. This is standing time not only for the train but also for the passenger. Have the mills of reform, grinding without effect all these years since the. atrociously engineered “temporary” shuttle was installed in 1918, nothing better than this to deliver to a suffering public ? Really, gent1emen, this is absurd. The shuttle has been getting stepchild treatment from the city tattoo long. It needs a thorough rebuilding and extension, river "to river, maybe farther. As such, it lacks originality. OTOH, what was Einstein's definition of insanity? |
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