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Posted by J trainloco on Sat Oct 7 00:17:44 2006, in response to Re: 7 train tagged in service!, posted by SilverFox on Wed Oct 4 04:24:00 2006. Everything was filthy, crumbling, and exuded the hint that further danger lurks not too far away. You always felt like a lamb going to slaughter, either as a target on a platform, or subject to roving gangs of wolf packs or mechanical breakdowns on the trains themselves. The whole system either smelled of something burning, or of urine.Each night on the news, there would seemingly be some new screwup either caused by mechanical breakdown (more like the machine just couldn't take it anymore and outright disintigrated), or by the ingenuity and ferocity of the crime detailed. I remember the story of some idiot running around Ely Avenue with a meat cleaver. He wasn't caught for some time before doing a lot of damage to straphangers. Graffitti was responsible for none of these things. As you mentioned in another post: yes, graffitti is a maintenance issue. But, non-removal of graffitti does not automatically mean that people are not doing maintenance. What lead to the decay of the system was the fact that nobody was doing anything. OTOH, if graffitti was not addressed, while other maintenance was performed, you would have a system that still works. |
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