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Has anyone else noticed a general decline in the cleanliness of the trains lately? I was shocked today at the condition of this G train. Plus I rode it home from work at about 3:45 pm, and then again home later on at 8:30 pm- caught the same train both times. The first time there was an excessive amount of garbage on the floor and the second time it was even worse. Papers and food wrappers scattered around, chicken bones on the floor and a sticky black substance streaked across the floor (didn't get a shot of it in the video). All we see is fare hikes and service cuts, and this is the quality that we get?
Sorry the video is small- it was shot sideways and youtube is rotating it in a strange way.
I find it pretty frustrating. I know that we're in a recession, but I would like to think that my $89 (soon to be $104?) per month is getting me some sort of quality.
Who are these heathens throwing chicken bones on the train floor? That's disgusting.
Indeed it is! Unfortunately, commentary on that subject can't help but stray into areas we might call 'politically incorrect.'
Aside from peoples' disgusting behavior, part of the reason for a decline in clean subway cars is MTA's concerted effort at downsizing. This is not being accomplished by trimming fat at the top (quite the contrary; they just hired 18 new upper level managers, each of whom will make more than $125K per year), but rather from the workforce. In other words, there aren't as many car cleaners as there used to be.
But to be honest, if people weren't dumping their trash throughout the subway system--and they do this to the tune of tons each day--the number of cleaners employed could keep everything clean.
People need to take responsibility for their mess, plain and simple. It's infuriating to me to watch someone come on the train with their food, eat it and leave it on the seat or on the floor and get off the train. There's absolutely no one to blame but the filthy pigs that do things like that. I wish they would start giving out fines for crap like that.
I don't find the trains particularly dirty at all. It only takes a couple of people to leave trash to make it messy and gross for everyone. I think overall, considering the pigs that take the trains on a daily basis, and volume of people on the trains every day, they are reasonably clean and 10,000,000% cleaner than the 70s and 80s (or so I here).
People need to take responsibility for their mess, plain and simple. It's infuriating to me to watch someone come on the train with their food, eat it and leave it on the seat or on the floor and get off the train. There's absolutely no one to blame but the filthy pigs that do things like that. I wish they would start giving out fines for crap like that.
I agree, there are already police officers on some stations. They should ticket the hell out of everyone who litters.
There's nothing nastier when I look down and I see someone's lunch or watery Starbucks next to my foot. There are trash cans all over the place, people.
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