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Posted by Peter Rosa on Wed Feb 22 12:04:43 2006, in response to Re: Attention Peter Rosa, posted by David of Broadway on Wed Feb 22 11:45:18 2006. And, as I've said before, somebody who sits in the middle seat would obviously prefer to sit in tight confines than to stand. Since there's a seat available, he's entitled to make that choice. If you'd prefer to stand than to sit in tight confines, then stand.But what about the people in the aisle and window seats? They don't get to make a choice, yet they're going to end up suffering when the middle seat is taken. People are bigger today than they were a generation ago. It's just the way things are, yet it's a point wholly lost on the LIRR and on the M-7 seating designers. What might have happened, now that I think about it, is that the seating designers took an average-weight figure into account when deciding on seat sizes, without realizing that an average for all adults is inaccurate because: 1) it includes both men and women; 2) women are lighter than men; and 3) Ronkonkoma trains in particular have relatively few women, at least during rush hour. My LIRR/NYCT blog |
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