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Northern Light said:
On the above, pre-covid, Los Angeles Transit went to a new variation of vinyl seating:

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It *sounds* good, but they need to demo it - including actual tests for the level of cleaning required for different types of liquids/spillage.

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picard102 said:
Hi Tonie, the fabric seats on our system are designed to be durable, breathable, and easy to clean. It's very simple to swap them and replace if needed. We've had considerable issues with graffiti when we had plastic seat material. ^SR

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Based on how seats were maintained in the first few years of service, I think this is accurate; the problem, I suspect, as previously noted is simply less cleaning and less seat replacement.
 
It is breathable alright - and it got a case of bad breath. And if it is so easy to clean - why are the seats so dirty? Swapping seats isn't "cleaning" - it is replacement.

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AlvinofDiaspar said:
It is breathable alright - and it got a case of bad breath. And if it is so easy to clean - why are the seats so dirty? Swapping seats isn't "cleaning" - it is replacement.

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depends on their protocols. the swapped out seat covers could in theory be sent to the cleaners and returned to the spare stocks afterwards.
 
max said:
At the top of the seat can we just attach that roll of paper you sit on at the doctor's office so you can a pull out a fresh one before you sit down?
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Or in a more macabre sense - disposable toilet seat covers.

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depends on their protocols. the swapped out seat covers could in theory be sent to the cleaners and returned to the spare stocks afterwards.
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Do you trust this as something they would do as part of their daily rounds immediately after an "event"? Much less consistently? I have my doubts - that's why I prefer question bold claims about cleanability and demand to actual wipe-clean performance.

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At the top of the seat can we just attach that roll of paper you sit on at the doctor's office so you can a pull out a fresh one before you sit down?
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AlvinofDiaspar said:
Or in a more macabre sense - disposable toilet seat covers.
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This gave me a good laugh but honestly, if you’re that concerned and do prefer sitting on public transit, just carry around your own little protector. Maybe stow a roll of parchment paper or a shopping bag in your rucksack?
 
reinventingthewheel said:
This gave me a good laugh but honestly, if you’re that concerned and do prefer sitting on public transit, just carry around your own little protector. Maybe stow a roll of parchment paper or a shopping bag in your rucksack?
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Or just stand, like someone of us do if the seats looks dodgy - but at the end of the day, I don't call maintaining a clean, fast, reliable system to be anything but a priority for a high quality transit system, and we should not default to the lowest denominator like we have been doing in this city.

AoD
 
nfitz said:
The current trams? With the narrow walkways in spots, as soon as someone is standing in them, and someone else tries to walk through them, it's problematic. With a similar loading on a subway train it's much easier to move around.
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The walkways are narrow in some spots, so in that respect the interior design could be better, but there are no less than 3 alcoves where multiple people might credibly stand and not be in the way of flowing traffic:

2-3 people would fit here:

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7 or 8 would fit here if they chose not to pull the seats down, less if the seats are occupied:

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4 people would fit here:
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Of course, the latter 2 you would have to vacate in the event of a wheelchair or bike boarding, but those are extremely rare events - I have been on my share of rush hour Flexities, and have never experienced this. Where on a subway are there equivalent spaces where one can sequester themselves during crushloads? Every space not devoted to doorways or the driver's cab is occupied by seats. Standing by the off-side doorway only works until the platform sides change; then you are all of a sudden that ass that's blocking the doorway again.
 
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Sure, there's space when it's partially full. But it's more difficult to navigate when it's full than a subway when it's full - let alone crush-loaded. At least if you find yourself in the centre of the car, in the seats.

It's certainly not as bad as some of these small-town buses with 2x2 seating all the way down the bus, where even 5 or 6 people standing creates problems.
 
Hello from Sunny England!

Judging by all the emails that I'm getting it appears the rain is wreaking havoc upon the transit system there.

How bad is the rain impacting things?

It seems like every 5 minutes something is closed or diverted for flooding.
 
Richard White said:
Hello from Sunny England!

Judging by all the emails that I'm getting it appears the rain is wreaking havoc upon the transit system there.

How bad is the rain impacting things?

It seems like every 5 minutes something is closed or diverted for flooding.
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It's the usual flash flood spots, around Front Street and the road tunnels under the railway, the lower Don River, etc.
Though I don't know how much more you can divert routes in the City before they're functionally totally another route.
Hopefully this doesn't delay the reopening of King/Church, though when I passed there about 1:00 p.m. yesterday afternoon there was literally no one working.
 
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