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View Poll Results: City with the best looking subway cars?
Atlanta MARTA 39 15.42%
Baltimore Metro Subway 10 3.95%
Boston MBTA 19 7.51%
Chicago EL 37 14.62%
Cleveland RTA 9 3.56%
Los Angeles Metro Rail 46 18.18%
Miami Metrorail 18 7.11%
New York City Subway 53 20.95%
Philadelphia SEPTA 16 6.32%
San Francisco BART 36 14.23%
San Juan Tren Urbano 7 2.77%
Washington D.C. Metro 80 31.62%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 253. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 05-19-2010, 09:18 PM
 
Location: New York
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Actually the new PATH (Manhattan & North Jersey) cars are the best looking subway cars I've ever seen.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b8/PATH_Kawasaki_5602c.jpg (broken link)

http://images.nycsubway.org/i102000/img_102285.jpg


YouTube - PATH : Hoboken Bound Train Of PA-5 Cars @ 14th Street
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Old 05-19-2010, 09:20 PM
 
Location: Jersey Boy living in Florida
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Actually the new PATH (Manhattan & North Jersey) cars are the best looking subway cars I've ever seen.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b8/PATH_Kawasaki_5602c.jpg (broken link)

http://images.nycsubway.org/i102000/img_102285.jpg


YouTube - PATH : Hoboken Bound Train Of PA-5 Cars @ 14th Street
Yeah I was going to put PATH but I figured I'd just put 1 for each city...so basically just include PATH under the New York City Subway category.
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Old 05-19-2010, 09:27 PM
 
Location: SF Bay Area
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Well they are at least generally clean, besides they are planning to replace them with new cars. I personally think BART is very expensive, and the monthly pass is just a joke, but probably that's why they are relatively well funded for maintance and changing cars, etc.
eh I wouldn't call them clean, especially the ones with carpeted floors. Those cloth seats and carpeted floors get pretty damn nasty imo. And I don't know why they have so many votes, they are pretty ugly. The one's that have that slanted front and don't have a door on the front aren't as bad as the one's that do (as shown in Clean Polo's pic).
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Old 05-19-2010, 09:32 PM
 
Location: Jersey Boy living in Florida
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eh I wouldn't call them clean, especially the ones with carpeted floors. Those cloth seats and carpeted floors get pretty damn nasty imo. And I don't know why they have so many votes, they are pretty ugly. The one's that have that slanted front and don't have a door on the front aren't as bad as the one's that do (as shown in Clean Polo's pic).
http://sfphototour.tripod.com/images/bart_head.jpg

I know exactly what your talking about.

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Old 05-19-2010, 09:41 PM
 
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Wow, BART looks awful, and the Miami Metro Rail looks like the Patco from the side. Personally, my favorite is the PATH (the new cars).
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Old 05-19-2010, 09:43 PM
 
Location: Jersey Boy living in Florida
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Wow, BART looks awful, and the Miami Metro Rail looks like the Patco from the side. Personally, my favorite is the PATH (the new cars).
Yeah PATH has some very nice new cars, I just figured I'd put it under the "New York City Subway" category.
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Old 05-19-2010, 09:54 PM
 
Location: On the Rails in Northern NJ
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Yeah I was going to put PATH but I figured I'd just put 1 for each city...so basically just include PATH under the New York City Subway category.
But the PATH is a separate system form NYC subway....& Serves Urban Jersey aswell.
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Old 05-19-2010, 10:00 PM
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Location: St Simons Island, GA
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Seriously, BART is winning this? Why, because people think SF is so cool? I was there in August and took it from the airport to downtown...I wouldn't have sat down on those filthy seats if my life depended on it.
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Old 05-19-2010, 10:03 PM
 
Location: Jersey Boy living in Florida
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But the PATH is a separate system form NYC subway....& Serves Urban Jersey aswell.
I know this, I just figured I'd only use one system for each city.
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Old 05-19-2010, 11:12 PM
 
Location: On the Rails in Northern NJ
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My 2 PATH videos i shot while @ the WTC station

PA-5 PATH : WTC - Hoboken


YouTube - PA-5 PATH : WTC - Hoboken

PA-5 Train @ WTC Station : WTC-Newark


YouTube - PA-5 Train @ WTC Station : WTC-Newark
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