Stevo wrote:

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


I actually think plastic seats would create a more amenable or
attractive environment for vandalism.

Bizarrely, on some London Central buses on the top-deck the back three
rows (i.e. the rear-most forward facing, the accompanying backward
facing and then the next forward facing rows) are plastic seats. I
don't now why this is - perhaps because the occupants of said seats are
frequently shifty characters who might be considered more prone to
commit vandalism, though I can't see that really being the thinking
behind it. However if that really is the logic behind these platic
seats then it's a self fulfilling prophecy - said back plastic seats
are often the most dirty (more so than the back of other buses),
sometimes with the addition of marker pen graffiti on the seats
themselves (which I admit absurdly also occurs on fabric seats, but
much less frequently).

Anyway, thankfully, plastic seats are definitely not on the agenda
whatsoever.