by SouthernRailway
For me, a huge downside of public transportation is loud passengers. Even if 95% of people in a train car are considerate and relatively quiet, it takes just 1 or 2 loud people to make a trip unpleasant.
Today on Metro-North, (1) one group of passengers screamed profanity throughout my entire 2 hour trip, and (2) one other group played their iPhones at full volume, without headsets, and laughed and carried on very loudly. That made it impossible for me to just relax and get stuff done.
Those loud passengers, and loud passengers generally, seem to sit in seats facing each other, which encourage conversation.
I propose that in most cars on a train, no 2 seats should face one another. If there need to be some seats facing in one direction and others facing in the other direction (to avoid needing to turn the car around at end stations), that can be done by having seats in the middle of the car be back-to-back, not facing each other.
If no 2 seats face each other, then people won't be as tempted to yap and carry on.
Perhaps there could be one car per train where all or many of the seats face each other. The loudmouths can sit there.
Anyone with me on this?
Today on Metro-North, (1) one group of passengers screamed profanity throughout my entire 2 hour trip, and (2) one other group played their iPhones at full volume, without headsets, and laughed and carried on very loudly. That made it impossible for me to just relax and get stuff done.
Those loud passengers, and loud passengers generally, seem to sit in seats facing each other, which encourage conversation.
I propose that in most cars on a train, no 2 seats should face one another. If there need to be some seats facing in one direction and others facing in the other direction (to avoid needing to turn the car around at end stations), that can be done by having seats in the middle of the car be back-to-back, not facing each other.
If no 2 seats face each other, then people won't be as tempted to yap and carry on.
Perhaps there could be one car per train where all or many of the seats face each other. The loudmouths can sit there.
Anyone with me on this?