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Mirza Ahmed
Sep 30, 2009
6:29 p.m.
This is not even close to being news. Seatless subway trains are used in Boston and the MTA have been considering them for some time. See this link:
http://www.nyctransitforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6766&highlight=seatless+trains
The CAS students you interviewed are completely nuts. The plans were always for four out of ten cars to be seatless. If they do not want to stand, they can simply move to the next car with seats in them.
Seatless trains will help increase capacity on the overcrowded IRT lines, especially the Lexington Avenue lines (4, 5 and 6 trains), meaning people will not need to wait for three or four trains to go by to get one with space on it, making everyone's commutes shorter.
The professor's complaints are ridiculous, a thoughtless expression of "rage against the system" that can only be expected from overly activist folks who work in dud fields like social analysis.