Baffling, anti-customer decision. They say it is to add space, but people sitting on the floor take up more space...
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Seems like a decission made by someone who doesnt ride the train.
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For those who must avail themselves of New Jersey Transit out of New York's Penn Station, that last modicum of creature comfort and human dignity vanished without explanation earlier this month. Adding insult to, well, insult, the extraction — which removed every single seating surface on the terminal's main concourse — took place not long after the transportation agency announced proposed fare hikes that would add nearly 10 percent to the average straphanger's daily outlay.http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninsca ... tation.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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An NJ Transit spokeswoman says the seats were merely moved to make the main waiting area less congested. It was not, she makes clear, done to reduce loitering.
Of course, that doesn't quite jibe with the notice the agency posted on the walls, on bright-yellow paper, every few feet above where the benches used to be: "One-Hour Ticketed Seating Relocated."
The spokeswoman emphasizes that the overall number of seats in the terminal remains the same. They're just in a different place now.
So far, anecdotal evidence — which is to say, "glancing around" — would seem to indicate that New Jersey Transit customers have responded to the change not by moving their buttocks to the upper level, but by plopping said keisters on the stairs and the floor in the main corridor.
A careful observer might conclude that a passenger waiting for a train prefers to do so in the closest possible proximity to the main access point to the train platform.
Seems like a decission made by someone who doesnt ride the train.
