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On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:15:31 -0700 (PDT)
Fat richard wrote:
Going are the days of those lovely transverse pairs in the driving
cars......................

I never found the tranverse seating as comfy as other people. The
seats
are too narrow for 2 people to sit on them confortably so you either
end up squashed against the wall as the person next to you tries to
get as much space as possible or sitting with a third of your bum
dangling off the edge of the seat and getting knocked as people move
along the aisle at every stop. Tube trains are just too narrow for
that kind of seating though I don't
see why they couldn't have continued with it on the sub surface stock.

I wonder why Tube stock don't use 2+1 transverse seating? This would
give adequately wide seats and a wide aisle, so it should be popular
with passengers. Yes, it would reduce seating capacity, but in a nicer
way than the all longitudinal arrangement. The new Met S Stock also
features a variant of this idea.