Stevo wrote:
Mizter T wrote:
Craig wrote:

Hi,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5186896.stm

Just wondered if anyone else thinks it would be far more hygenic, more
pleasant & acceptable if the decision to no longer cover seats on new
trains in fabric was made.

Maybe as other mass transit systems use, eg, New York, a hard rigid
plastic. Still comfortable to sit on given that you are only on it
briefly !!! and not holding hidden all kinds of gunk that must be
embedded in the fabric.....

Just Wondered !

Plastic seats, no way!

I think they would be less pleasant and less acceptable. I don't think
there's any real hygiene problem at all either.

New Yorkers might accept plastic seats on their subway trains, but I doubt
very much Londoners would!!!


It's not like they'd have any choice. They've "accepted" the appalling
layout on the Jubilee, where one person can stand in the space occupied
by two flip up seats on similar Northern Line stock (because there is
no allowance for the top half of the body of a standing passenger, nor
the fact that you can't lean on the head of an adjacent seated
passenger).

I haven't seen the mockup yet, but the diagrams in MR suggested that
these obvious shortcomings might have been recognised at last, ie that
space needs to be divided efficiently into passenger sized chunks that
allow a person to balance without leaning on someone else, whether
standing or not, and that wide open space is not necessarily usable.

And that people have top halves to their bodies. And that people
leaning against a sloping wall have to balance by splaying their legs
out further than they would if sitting in a flip up seat.

Similar things could be learned about the 376s on SET. Come to think
about it, maybe the aliens who designed all these trains should be
given lessons in human anatomy.