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They are. Fabric seats feel softer and warmer to the touch, especially in colder weather. Fabric-covered seats include some degree of padding, offering a slight cushion that improves perceived comfort. Fabric tends to absorb sound and vibration better, making the experience quieter and less jarring.
If your definition of wearing clothes means a Burqa, then you have a point. But in reality not everyone is in a three piece suit on the subway in the summer.
In Warsaw or Stockholm, sure those seats are pretty comfy. But there should be no question that on the TTC seats the cushion effect is negligible and they are effectively about as hard as the NYC plastic seats everyone loves to hate on.
No, my point has always been that the vast majority of riders wouldn't be sitting in those seats ass-naked (or even topless), so me thinks this issue is overblown more than it needs to be. And I say this as someone who goes out in nothing but a t-shirt & swim shorts in the summer whenever possible.
Where on earth did you get this from? This is completely and utterly untrue.
Of all the times I rode the TTC and sat down, I never noticed any significant degree of squishiness to those seats (not that I cared much either way, I don't mind sitting on plastic seats either).
This is a wild take.
No one said they'd be sitting in them naked. That's entirely something you made up. But people wearing shorts or any variation of tops that are not t-shirts certainly would experience feeling their skin get stick to the surface.
Really now? I'll be sure to check next time I take the ttc (which isn't very often these days), but I'm pretty sure they're nowhere near as cushy as, say, the C14 seats, despite being configured very similarly.
So which one is it? Either they were sticky or slippery (to slide around in them), but surely they can't be both.
So which is it? The NYC hard plastic seats, or the C14 seats?
They surely can. Hard plastic can stick to your skin, or be slippery on your clothing.
Somewhere in between the 2, but probably closer to NYC.
I can’t believe that anyone who uses King regularly but didn’t have the map would hear “Melinda Exit” and think “that’s obviously the one through Commerce Court” rather than the exit-only to the aforementioned street
I’m not on it every day, but on Thursday, for the second time, I saw a guy step from the platform to the space between two subway cars on Line 2.
Had the opportunity to try those seats again tonight (pressing down with my fingertips), I stand by what I said: they felt exactly as if you put a few-mm-thick layer of fabric over a rock. No significant squishiness or cushion effect whatsoever.
Which is negligible and nowhere near that offered by the vinyl seats or the Warsaw/Stockholm seats.
