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Posted by SilverFox on Wed Oct 4 16:43:02 2006, in response to Re: 7 train tagged in service!, posted by NIMBYkiller on Wed Oct 4 15:10:40 2006. I highly doubt that should a graffiti epidemic return to the subways that it would come with the crime and lack of maitenance that was experienced in the 80s. A graffiti epidemic is the first indication of a lack of maintenance. Subway cars should not be graffiti'd, period. If they are on the road for X hours, days, weeks, months, or years wearing graffiti scrawls, it is the very definition of somebody not paying attention and not caring. It's very difficult to allow one type of maintenance defect (vandalized carbodies) to persist while addressing other maintenance issues, such as brake shoe thickness, bearing lubrication, and motor health. While there might not be a connection between spraypainted carbodies and these other maintenance concerns, suppose cleaning the graffiti off the carbodies weakens the carbodies through excessive scrubbing, washing, sandblasting, or whatever is done to remedy that problem. Pretty soon, you will have rotting carbodies with tip-top running gear. Is that economical? Again, in and of themselves, graffiti are harmless, but as part of the bigger picture, they are the apex of the slippery slope. Give into graffiti, and pretty soon a return to order will be nearly impossible without 100 times the effort than otherwise would have been necessary, as has already been demonstrated. |
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