Could This Subway Car Save NYC Transit? - Cheddar Explains

Are the cars the MTA uses currently the best for the way we ride the subway? In 2013, researchers from Operations Planning Group at NYCT submitted their improved design to the Transportation Research Board. Cheddar explains...
Special thanks to the New York Transit Museum for letting us film on their premises and the Director of the museum, Concetta Bencivenga, for providing us with extensive historical knowledge. All footage of the historical subway cars were taken at the New York Transit Museum.
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[@JAMANB]

MTA: Might Take Awhile

[@mischaprice]

That design really looks like people sitting in the seats at either end of the car might get trapped in there if lots of people are standing in the narrow gap between the sides

[@Ndizzyinthehizzy]

When they talked about the seating habits of riders, I've never felt more called out in my life.

[@KissOfLight71]

I don’t prefer to hold on to vertical poles, I legit can’t reach the horizontal ones above the seats!!

[@nickgehr6916]

Cheddar:

[@onlyyoulyj]

New york: Our subway system is very overcrowded.

[@7Comic7mischief7]

When that "perfect" car design popped up I actually grimaced. That airline seating is abysmal.

[@thegreentimtam]

That design is stupid. People like sitting alone - they don't "not like the middle seat".

[@mack7207]

That aircraft style one looks awful, think how hard it is to get out of a crowded train as it is, imagine sitting in the corner of one of those

[@idontwanttopickone]

Airline style seating on subway and inner city trains is the worst idea ever. We have them on some trains in London and they are horrible. They aren't designed for getting on and off quickly, they are suitable for long distance travel only, not short hops. You have to squeeze past someone, because of this the window seat is often empty when it could be full. They eat up more standing space. Because there is less room to get along the isle, it only takes one person standing to stop those seats being filled and instantly lower the capacity of the train or to make someone miss their stop. It's just poorly thought out design. Airline style seating should be for situations where a train makes a stop every 10+ or 20+ minutes, not every few minutes like most inner city trains do.

[@haydenbriggs9685]

People dont sit on the ends for the sake of sitting on the edge, they do it to get away from peopel

[@dwarfplanets533]

For everyone wondering, "comfortabillity"

[@boazthomassie4919]

5:16

[@KyrylTube]

Comfortability? What happened to Comfort?!?

[@MarkBenYehuda]

2020 Update: There still overcrowed!

[@ShaunDreclin]

The new open-layout subways are a godsend in Toronto. Certain cars used to always be incredibly overcrowded while others could be virtually empty, due to the placement of platform entrances. Now they're much more evenly spread out!

[@wossonjohn85]

that "perfect" car design is so deeply flawed it's actually funny!

[@odorikakeru]

“Comfortability”

[@thomaspagan4914]

Bravo! Whether or not you like one style of seating or another, I really liked this style of reporting! It was clear, concise, interesting and did not appear to biased in any way. I have experienced the rush hour on buses AND trains. Certainly the problem is growing and getting worse. I hope the R-211 works out. Keep up the great reporting!

[@Generictingz95]

This video was extremely informative!! I loved in nyc all my life and always take the train and I learned a lot of stuff I never knew before 😀