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I wish they could run one with the carpeted floors and fabric seats.

It sounds like you've never sat down on a BART fabric seat only to discover it is wet. I won't miss the fabric seats.

I think that's what GP meant. I wish we lived in a world where we could have nice things.

Exactly - fabric seats and carpet are more comfortable and help with noise, but they always get trashed and are eventually removed.

Not here in Japan

London also has them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moquette

Sure, and Marin (Bay Area) also has fabric seats, but their public transit sees much lower ridership.

It's hard to overstate how vile the old wool seats were on BART. It took the NY Times reporting that the wool covers harbored MRSA and other nasties to prompt the switch to vinyl.

Same with Austrian trains.

> wish they could run one with the carpeted floors and fabric seats

Oh dear god, you just brought back the horrors of a Southeast Ireland (Enniscorthy) pub’s carpeted fucking bathroom. You know you’re a pub. You know you’re in Ireland. And yet you chose carpeting laid in 1910 and decided every day thereafter “yeah, looks good.”

Carpeted bathrooms... I had a relative with a shag carpet in the bathroom. The cocaine must've been blowing hard in the 70s/80s for that decision to have made sense.

I also had a carpeted bathroom in my first apartment. I don't know what the fuck the landlord was thinking.

My wife and I once looked at a house that had a huge bathtub, sunken directly into the floor, in the center of the bathroom, surrounded by shag carpet, all the way up to the edge of the tub.

You wouldn’t want to step out on to a cold hard floor would you? Not when you have the option of a deep luxurious carpet instead.

After dealing with the inevitable mold problems, I'm sure you'd rather step on the cold hard floor.

A lovely luxuriously absorbent carpet to keep your feet warm and dry!

But why not just buy a rug, make it washable for heavens sake

Just give me radiant floor heating

Carpeted bathrooms, in homes, were very much A Thing in Ireland for a surprisingly long time; even after cheap vinyl flooring became available, people kept putting them in, until the 80s or so.

I still remember in the 90s seeing homes in uk with carpeted kitchens... Never understood what people were thinking.

Was it avocado color?

That was a _different_ weird fad, from the 70s, though I assume some people did both.

Nah, beige or dark colors...

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