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Is it just me or are the DC cars wider? I know they are wider than light rail subways like Boston's Green line, but they seem wider than Septa and NYC and Chicago too.
Not sure if they are wider, but they are definitely smoother and better climate controlled than nyc or chicago trains.
What I like about the NYC subway is the diversity of the subway cars. Dont really see it much in other subways in the country, but sadly the NYC subway looks line it's being less diverted. Hopefully the news trains that should be exposed in 2014(hopefully) will look completely different from the r143/r160 trains.
They're fixing my biggest beef with the new rail cars for the CTA. They're getting in over 700 cars at the moment to update the entire fleet. They have the electronic destination signs, electronic location signs inside the car and are alternating current. BUT, the new cars had a solid orange destination sign on the outside. On old trains the signs were all in the colors of the lines that were running so you knew what line was arriving when you were in the loop (with multiple lines on one track).
So recently the inbound brown and purple lines just said "loop" in orange. You really didn't know what was what unless you listened to the operator or looked inside the train.
They're now retrofitting the cars we already have to use backlit LED signs with the color of that line. You can see in this video that the first four cars have backlit LED green destination signs (they only shake like that cause of the fact they're being filmed by the camera), with the last two having the first generation orange signs that will now be retrofit.
Miami's do look nice, I like New York's and Chicago's because they're like the originators. LA's are nice and ATL's are nice too, sorry San Francisco but the BART has the UGLIEST trains I've seen in the country.
I voted Atlanta's MARTA. I rode it every day. Washington DC's cars appear similar to MARTA's and are from the same era.
BART trains have started looking worn, but were more "cool" decades ago. It was really forward thinking that allowed 4 counties in the Bay Area to put BART together, and provide service across the bay. It's really too bad that the LA area did not inaugurate rail service at about the same time, when LA was more of a "teenager."
Check out this very 70s looking BART logo still in use today. And look what I found, 2 BART trains passing each other with the campanile at UC Berkeley in the background! http://sfist.com/attachments/SFist_Jay/bart-train.jpg
Not sure if they are wider, but they are definitely smoother and better climate controlled than nyc or chicago trains.
DC trains are indeed much wider it seems than Chicago IMO. Never really noticed NYC that much. This is based on experience. Also, yeah, DC trains are smoother than Chicago trains and NYC trains.
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