I am sure there are many perfectly valid reasons to retire them. Nevertheless, I have always liked railways since I was a kid so I can understand the nostalgia.

We had a trecel train bridge going right over the town where I lived as a kid. I used to go to the station up the cliff and talk with the station chief. He gave me an official company timetable of all trains including freight trains so when I was in primary school, I could watch the trains going over the trecel while sitting at my desk in school and

Too much strain on the body, twisting in the R46s' seats to perform suppressive fire. The R211s are more ergonomic. And the new metal laddery-thing uprights offer some additional cover.

Whoever said that was certainly not a native New Yorker.

It's... complicated. You can design communities to encourage socialization and you will end up with happier people, but at the same time it seems creepy to force it. But if you don't do this, effectively what you're doing is designing communities to encourage isolation, which seems like exactly the opposite of looking out for the general welfare of the people you're building things for.

As long as introverts aren't being strapped to a chair in the middle of a sharing circle, designing infrastructure to su

If you look at the new subway car, what they've done is eliminate most of the seating. What they're doing here is slyly selling a worse customer experience -- having to stand -- as a better one -- not having a seatmate who might talk to you.

I wonder whether this is whether part of a general trend of incorporating hostile architecture into New York transit. They're also removing seating from MTA train stations and the Port Authority designed their bus terminals to have no place to sit.

> No thank you, and I don't think that should be your job.

Just throwing this out there... I didn't take it that riders were expected to socialize with randos. I'd think this layout would be great for groups of more than two people who know each other, so they can face each other and converse.

"Are stories about Kansas City next?"

Is that Kansas City, KS or Kansas City, MO

Many of us non-New Yorkers have ridden, suffered through music, witnessed crimes, and absolutely not bought food from "vendors" on R46s. Nostalgia for Nerds. Pour one out for the old cars . . .

Is Kansas City getting new subway cars? Now that would be something!

> This is local news. Why does somebody outside of the New York area care?

I'm not from New York. I'm interested it what life is like on the everyday trains that New Yorkers use. I'm also interested in the similarities it has with the trains in my home city and there are some. I was looking at Tokyo's metro system yesterday and when I saw this article on New York's trains I thought it would be useful to learn the experiences of locals in the threads so I have some useful information when I visit.