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Video: The C Train Proves Itself As The Worst Train Ever
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Jamie Feldmar
Published Jan 20, 2012
Modified Jan 20, 2012
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In the event that you don't actually, for some reason, believe that the C train is the worst train in the city, allow the magic of film to prove it to you. ABC just took a little ride on the oldest cars in the MTA's fleet—which "sound like [they're] in pain" when they pull up to a station—and decided to put their camera on the floor to see just how shaky a typical commute can be. Check it out:
The trains are almost always lacking in air conditioning in the summer as well—when we tested subway temperatures last summer they reached 92 degrees. And ABC's report doesn't even mention how the C trains run infrequently (at least three A trains will show up while you wait for one).
Transit officials are planning on making $24 million in repairs, but those repairs will only be enough to keep the current C trains, which have been in use since 1964, running for another five years, instead of retiring them and getting new ones. "It does work from point A to point B," rider Guy Nelson said, which is alternately the highest compliment and the saddest thing you can say about the C.
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