MetroMan
Senior Member
So no floor or ceiling refitting?
Speaking of Museum station.... all hording on the platform is gone as of this morning. It looks like all the columns are done, but are still wrapped up.
Sticky subject in NYC subway: Some stations gummier than others
31 January 2008
NEW YORK (AP) - Some subway stations' concrete floors gum up efforts to keep them clean, transit officials are acknowledging as they consider standards for future floors.
While subway workers dutifully scrub discarded chewing gum off areas with porcelain or granite tiles, when it comes to concrete floors, "essentially, we leave it down," NYC Transit President Howard Roberts Jr. said Wednesday.
It's tougher to uproot gum from concrete than tile, agency spokesman Paul Fleuranges explained.
NYC Transit is spending six months studying what material to use in future in the subway system's 277 underground stations. Concrete is far cheaper to install -- $421,000 for a standard station, as against $1.7 million for granite tiles, officials said. But the agency also will compare cleaning and maintenance costs.
Either way, rider advocates want the gum conundrum resolved.
"It's not attractive, and you know where it came from ... from someone's mouth," said William Henderson, executive director of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee. The MTA is NYC Transit's parent agency.
There's not much to photograph right now. The platform is looking cleaner now that all the walls have been done and the hoarding removed. The pillars are all still covered though.
Since this is turning out to be TTC control area, it will be a few months before new photo's go up.
I don’t have a clue what that means. Noncommercial photography is permitted. You don’t have to wait for anything, let alone permission.
Are they going to be re-cladding the tiled boxes on the platform?