[Info-vax] [off topic] NYC subway - dirty station, but clean train, and no graffiti at all

[JF Mezei]

On 13-10-06 23:20, AEF wrote:
> Just fulfilling my not-quite-a-promise to VAXMAN about how clean the NYC subway is nowadays


I remember when Bombardier won its first contract for NYC subway cars.
The media here covered this quite a bit, and one of the features was
interior design which reduced space for grafitti on the subway car
itself (but ads still a target).

The other aspect is that the old cars were not respected because they
were in bad shape and already had grafitti which attracted more grafitti.

When you have newer equipment, people have more respect and there is
less vandalism. NYC has been spending a lot of money to renew its subway
fleet since its near bankruptcy days.

I suspect that subway cars from other manufacturers that MTA has
received incorporated similar anti grafitti designs.