Survey: half of NYC subway cars are clean
Subway riders get ready to board a No. 1 train at the 72nd Street station on the Upper West Side. (Feb. 23, 2010) Credit: Craig Ruttle
A watchdog group says only half of New York City subway cars were clean in a survey last fall.
A year earlier, 57 percent were deemed clean.
The Straphangers Campaign’s new survey found the M line to be the dirtiest, and the No. 6 and C lines to be the cleanest.
It blamed budget cuts at the transportation agency for the decline.
There were 43 fewer car cleaners in 2009 than in 2008 and another 108 cleaners are slated to be cut in the 2010 budget.
The survey rated cleanliness of floors and seats.
NYC Transit conducts its own subway cleanliness survey. Its findings showed improvement in overall cleanliness for the second half of 2009.
The two surveys use similar but not identical methodology.
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