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Posted by Fytton on Wed Jul 26 10:48:23 2006, in response to Re: Pic: blast from the past, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Wed Jul 26 00:05:10 2006. "I've heard it's a problem in London."No it isn't, at least to anywhere near the degree that it was in NYC in the 1980s. We get a little graffitti on the trains now and then, though on the whole the Underground is pretty clean these days. More on trackside walls and structures (on open-air sections of lines) and on suburban rail lines. It's virtually impossible to walk into deep tube tunnels without getting killed, and anyway they are unlit, so any 'artistry' put up there would be pretty much invisible. Not much on suburban trains, although I have seen some on brand-new trains painted allover white (a bit inviting for the graffitti artists, that). Scratchitti is a problem on the Thameslink trains I sometimes use. Not too serious in other European cities I have been to - in Paris, the Metro trains and statiions are pretty clean, though there is a surprising amount of graffitti on the tunnel walls between stations. The RER in Paris is worse than the Metro. But I've never seen anything in Europe that is anywhere near as bad as those NYC trains were 20 years ago. |
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