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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (4 children)

As a New Yorker, whenever I visit Paris or other cities with metros that have upholstered seats, I always have a sense of disgust and fear I'm going to get bed bugs sitting on a seat. I don't understand why they don't have plastic seats like we do in the MTA for sanitary reasons.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Comfort, I assume

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Try sitting on a plastic seat for six hours, it's no fun.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

On a metro commute you aren't sitting for more than 90 minutes if all goes well. And paris is pretty small compared to NYC or London.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

When I visited Japan every seat on transit was fabric. Coming from SEPTA in Philly it truly skeeved me out

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I wonder if we could make more comfortable seats that aren’t easy warm homes for bugs