Conductors should tell people not to put bags on seats when passengers are standing.
Conductors should tell people not to put bags on seats when passengers are standing.
Reason why I sit on the middle seat if I have to sit on the back row.It’s not restricted to trains either. Endemic on Edinburgh buses.
I thought that was what The Metro was for?The one time my legs were killing me, I actually put newspaper on the seat opposite, ensuring it would cover it fully and then put my feet on it so it doesn't touch the moquette.
This latest research follows a previous study that found the surface of Tube seats were contaminated with four types of hair sample (human, mouse, rat, dog), seven types of insect (mostly fleas, mostly alive), vomit originating from at least nine separate people, human urine originating from at least four separate people, human excrement, rodent excrement and human semen.
The report also swapped the surfaces in ten busy stations.
It was found that hand rails at Bank, Monument, Liverpool Street and Oxford Circus were the worst for germs, while the touch screen machines at Stratford were the grimiest.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/1755039/train-seats-are-over-six-times-filthier-than-toilets/
Shoes and seats are the last thing to worry about.
Do people actually wait for this? Don't you just ask yourself?Conductors should tell people not to put bags on seats when passengers are standing.
I suspect that most of us think nothing of sitting down in a field or a park, which has quite likely been the recent recipient of feet and canine deposits - not to mention various clandestine activities after dark. I don't think that seats on public transport are uniquely filthy.
So a long distance train from Bournemouth to London is it OK to sit on a facing seat, just sometimes? Is it OK from Waterloo to Bournemouth?It depends on the train and the area. Feet on seats is a particular epidemic on long trains in the SE, but on long distance trains like Virgin or LNER it is less of an issue.
Yes, Pacers (for example, from the early 80s) have always had the "Please do not put feet on the seats" stickers in the facing sears, often with the 'not' imaginitavely etched out.
Anyone who things this is a new thing is misguided, nor is it restricted to any particular age demographic.
Unless it's visibly soiled it won't even cross my mind. It's not going to kill me.
They often do ask over the PA if the train is busy although most people move bags, coats etc without being asked.Conductors should tell people not to put bags on seats when passengers are standing.
Not a bizarre thread at all. As a Muslim, this crosses my mind all the time. I never sit on the double facing seats (or triple facing), as I know know people have put their shoes on them. If a seat were vacant, I'd rather stand, than sit on those seats.What a bizarre thread, the thought has never even crossed my mind
On long trains in SE England it is extremely common for passengers to put feet on the opposite seat where seats face each other. So do you sit in those seats knowing that people may well have had their feet on them?