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Iconic wooden subway benches being replaced with stainless steel seating underground
Author:admin  Source:本站  Published time:2012-2-26 13:14:03  click:4045

	Subways are getting metal benches to replace old wooden ones.
 
Subway riders are getting new furniture — stainless steel benches to replace the iconic wooden behemoths now in stations, the Daily News has learned.

The MTA has chosen a sleek, modern style to be installed in stations when they come up for major overhauls or more modest face-lifts, the MTA said.

One of the new subway seats is already in place at the R station at Whitehall St., at the southern tip of Manhattan where straphangers gave mixed reviews.

“It’s better,” Luis Pares, 46, a concierge from New Jersey, said of the metal three-seat bench. “It’s more comfortable. It’s the best thing they’ve invented.”

But Carol Godfrey, 52, a subway conductor who plopped down on it while waiting for a train home called it “horrible.”

“It’s cold,” she said. “There’s nothing like the old wooden ones. They’re sturdier. Put back the old wooden benches. No, put back new wooden benches.”

Richard Puk, 59, a messenger, thought the stainless steel model was slightly less comfortable and overly sterile in appearance.

“Aesthetically, the wood is nicer,” Puk said.

Subway managers began exploring alternative seating options to reduce expenses a few years ago. Stainless steel is easier and less costly to maintain, MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz said.

The MTA doesn’t have the money to replace all of the benches at once so the new style will be phased in, Ortiz said.

 

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