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By mid-October, the last Redbird trains will be taken off the tracks to make way for the MTA's new subway cars. The old Redbird trains, named after they were painted red to combat graffiti, are forty years old and their bodies are rusting; they will be dumped off the shore to help create artificial reefs in the ocean. If you're feeling nostalgic, you can catch Redbirds on the 7 line.
Our own Justin just went to the newly refurbished Transit Museum and enjoyed sitting in the old subway cars. There's even an original Redbird train in blue paint (Bluebird), which was done for the 1964-1965 World's Fair in Queens. He also adds that there's a huge amount of information there, so give yourself plenty of time.
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i'm going to miss the red-birds. can't we just keep them? sniffle sniffle.
please lets get rid of them. if i have to tell another indignant old asian lady that no, there is no room for her and her luggage cart in the 3 inches between me and the metal pole, i will scream.
the newer trains at least have pseudo chairs that delineate how many booties per square inch can safely squeeze in. plus, they don't pinch your clothes, smell like homeless armpit, or squeal so loud you're sure your ears will light ablaze.
bye bye redbird!
I don't know about the pseudo-seats. There are the people who purposefully sit on the border between seats and thereby take up two seats. Also, there are a lot of people in this world who don't fit in the seat divot, and then the seat next to them is all but taken unless you're built like Lara Flynn Boyle.
The seat divots are already going away now... they were a failure so the new trains are back to benches. The divots are just too narrow for normal sized people --- you can sit in one alone but you can't fill all the seats in a row with people, shoulders are too wide.
My suspicion is that the real reason for the divots was to make it less comfortable to sleep on those benches, and that obviously didn't work.