New York to remove subway seats to deal with overcrowding

So even more like cattle cars than they already are? Wonderful.

The M train is shutting down this year for a year or so and then the L is shutting down for 2 years immediately after. Now this. Wooo weee I am so glad I left nyc a few months ago (after nearly 20 years) and I am not looking back. With the insane influx of transplants over the past 10-15 years, traveling via train became an even more inhumane experience, Like cattle. The worst is yet to come. What a Fucking mess.

where did you move R2? did you retire?

It's a good idea. In Chicago they put the "bench" style on the Red Line and now homeless and fat people use them for beds. It won't kill you to stand up.

After 25 years I did the same R2, and I don't regret it for a second. Leave it to the talentless trust fund brats and the Wall Street assholes. NY is dead.

It's all the fault of tourists. Without them, NYC would be Utopia.

Sure they are. This makes total sense.

So what do the elderly and disabled do again?

[quote]ooo weee I am so glad I left nyc a few months ago

I'm sure no one will miss you.

The L train doesn't shut down until the summer of 2019.

R2 Governor Cuomo singlehandedly stopped the shutdown of the L Train so you can return to NYC now

No thanks, we replaced his apartment with a sexnasium.

Next stop Yonkers!

Fuck off, r12. Take your trash and your racism elsewhere fuckhead.

NYC Native. And yes, it’s dead. It’s been killed by the influx of transplants. There are more people here than there is room. Hence why they are LITERALLY throwing up buildings all over the place so more people can live here.

Issue is there are more people than jobs and room.

R13 is about as fun at a party as a shit in a pool and wonders why he's alone now and will die alone.

OP, a lot of the MTA's problems are just a result of mismanagement. The Village Voice did a pretty convincing article on the myth of overcrowding problems and how the MTA's policies to drastically slow down trains across the board probably have had more to do with why the subway has deteriorated so much in the last few decades.

I wanted to give billions to Amazon because they deserved it.

The subway is for the poor and it doesnt make sense to waste money on modernizing it.

I see groups of dozens of people enter through emergency exits so they don't pay to ride almost everyday. One person pays, opens the exit, and people file right in. No one seems to care about that, which angers me.

R16 WRONG! The problem with the MTA is the same as the problem with the LIRR. Conductors are getting $100,000 a year to hand out tickets and their salary goes up and up and no money is going to modernizing the equipment. Hence the derailments, crashes, and breakdowns.

R19, here's the article.

I know how to run a proper subway system.

some cars have already had their seats taking out. I saw some the other day with the end seats taken out

Why can't they have seats that can be folded up to make room?