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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, 11:15 PM
 
Location: Jersey Boy living in Florida
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It's good to see PATH get new cars, I have yet to ride em, maybe I will this summer .
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Old 05-19-2010, 11:29 PM
 
Location: DC/Brooklyn, NY/Miami, FL
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DC:




Future 7000 series cars:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...al_drawing.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...000_inside.jpg

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Old 05-19-2010, 11:35 PM
 
Location: DC/Brooklyn, NY/Miami, FL
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I like NYCTA's R142/R143/R160 series too:





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Old 05-20-2010, 12:12 AM
 
Location: Jersey Boy living in Florida
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Those look nice
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Old 05-20-2010, 12:41 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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The Chicago CTA cars have my favorite automated announcement - "soliciting and gambling are prohibited on CTA vehicles".
Haha yeah, I love the L

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Lmao, doesn't Chicago have the funny door closing sounds too? I believe they sound like doorbell chimes or something.
Haha yeah,

YouTube - Chicago L Line

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Old 05-20-2010, 08:56 AM
 
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You know what I always liked about the PATH and certain subway cars, the fact that in the winter, the heater is directly located beneath the seat and really warms you're legs and hind end. I half wonder if that's where they got the idea of "heated seats" from.
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Old 05-20-2010, 10:21 AM
 
Location: Jersey Boy living in Florida
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You know what I always liked about the PATH and certain subway cars, the fact that in the winter, the heater is directly located beneath the seat and really warms you're legs and hind end. I half wonder if that's where they got the idea of "heated seats" from.
I know exactly what your talking about. I have no clue if thats where it came from though.
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Old 05-20-2010, 11:56 AM
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Location: Queens, NY
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there are no subway cars in the u.s. worthwhile IMO as far as look.

aesthetically, everywhere but the u.s. has cool looking subway trains.

and yes, i say this as a nyer. our trains haven't looked cool IMO since about 1988ish. i guess you could count the redbirds that were retired in 2003...
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Old 05-20-2010, 12:37 PM
 
Location: Omaha, NE
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They are all pretty ugly. I'll vote for the EL because like so many have said, the announcements are great and the ding dong when the doors close is a nice feature.

I'll also vote for BART, because it's funny that BART has so many votes.

Also one for San Juan, a noble effort by our commonwealth friends.
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Old 05-20-2010, 01:22 PM
 
Location: Jersey Boy living in Florida
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Yeah BART has to be the worst I've seen in the country. Almost like something you'd see in Tokyo or something, and IMO that's not a good thing when talking about trains. I hate those rocket ship looking trains they use overseas especially Japan, they have no classy "subway" look to them.
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