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I passed by the metro north station in Wakefield yesterday and I saw that it was renovated, very clean. New seats for waiting commuters, new signs, graffiti was painted over, and the next stop Woodlawn was dirtier!! Whats going on?
The MTA has been, thankfully, fixing up a lot of stations up in the Bronx recently. A lot of the stations along the 4 have been completley rehabbed over the past couple of months. If you ask me this was long overdue.
I'd say a good 2/3rds of the subway stations in the city need to be completley redone, but the MTA seems to be slowly working at the problem. At least they are doing something, I guess.
Oh, by the way, has anyone seen the new Shuttle? Each car is painted with a background; one car felt like you were in an aquarium and another was a jungle and so on. Has anyone seen this? I think the MTA should do that for the new T line (along 2nd Ave)
Unfortunately the locals quickly mess them up. The stations on the 5 line were the first in the Bronx to be renovated. They are starting to look like **** again...
As for Woodlawn and Wakefield. Messed up how the working/middle class area is recieving renovations AFTER the working/lower income neighborhood.
It's been over 12 years, but when I lived there it was decent. I had one apartment in a private home on Monticello Ave. and another one on Wickham Ave. Both locations were nice and quiet. Reminded me somewhat of Long Island, where I had lived for most of my childhood. The area was and probably still is predominately West Indian. They kept the neighborhood and streets very clean, considering there is no alternate side of the street parking/street cleaning.
Communiting to NYC wasn't easy though. The areas around the White Plains Rd and Dyre Ave. train stations are sketchy. I use to take the "dollar van" to White Plains Rd and hop on an Express Bus to Manhattan, so that never bothered me. In some cases if I was really running late, I'd take the Metro North from Woodlawn.
Overall, it was a decent, safe, and quiet neighborhood. I can't speak for the surrouding areas like around the Edenwald projects, etc. I didn't go in those areas.
Yeah I agree, but in all honesty stations like Woodlawn aren't in such bad shape at the moment. They could slap a coat of paint onto the outside of the building to fix it up, but the inside is actually pretty decent by subway standards.
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Originally Posted by Hustla718
Unfortunately the locals quickly mess them up. The stations on the 5 line were the first in the Bronx to be renovated. They are starting to look like **** again...
As for Woodlawn and Wakefield. Messed up how the working/middle class area is recieving renovations AFTER the working/lower income neighborhood.
Unfortunately the locals quickly mess them up. The stations on the 5 line were the first in the Bronx to be renovated. They are starting to look like **** again...
As for Woodlawn and Wakefield. Messed up how the working/middle class area is recieving renovations AFTER the working/lower income neighborhood.
I say the same thing when someone ******* about why the MTA system is dirtier than European systems. When you serve the ghetto, things turn to **** quickly.
Yeah but that doesn't explain why subway stations in ritzy areas of Manhattan look trashy and are falling apart. You can only blame so much on ghetto people, the rest of the fault belongs to lazyness & corruption at the MTA.
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Originally Posted by briarwood
I say the same thing when someone ******* about why the MTA system is dirtier than European systems. When you serve the ghetto, things turn to **** quickly.
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