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Seating on Commuter Rail & DART

  • 22-11-2005 8:22pm
    #1
    BrianD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,221 ✭✭✭


    Let's forget the notion that every rush hour commuter should have a seat. I have always wondered why do IR go with a very old fashioned and inconvenient seating arrangement in carriages that seems to mimic carriages of old? Can they not take out these seats and put in seating similar to the NY subway or the Tube. I would guess that there would end up with more seats available and definitely more standing room. Passengers would also find it easier to move down inside the carriages. Any thoughts?


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  • #2
    Slippin Jimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,025 ✭✭✭Slippin Jimmy


    Hi Brian,
    I have to agree to some extent with you. If they did arrange all of the seats on the Darts and Commuter then there would be a lot more seating and standing room. But that would mean that there would be a colossal amount of people travelling on the trains, even more than there is at this moment. The comuters are a very long run, people need to sit down, some people like to sit down and have their tea or coffee, but if these seats were gone they would have to stand and drink their beverage, and if they spilled it, it is going to go on the person next to them. The seats are alright at the moment, there are not to many of them mind. If IE were going to do as you suggest it would take time and money, which IE dont have. They cannot affors to have trains off for days on end. They need as many as they can possibly get.


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