Line by Line Performance: Worst to Best
Percentage of Clean NYC Transit Subway Cars In its second survey of cleanliness in NYC subways, the Straphangers
Campaign found that only 552 of 2066 subway cars it inspected were relatively
grime-free. The report, "Subway Shmutz II," determined that subways
have gotten dirtier in the last year; that actual subway dirt is far worse
than Transit officials claim; that New York City Transit did not hire additional
car cleaners in 1998, in spite of its own reports and public criticism;
and that New York City has not set meaningful goals for subway-car cleanliness,
as recommended in "Shmutz I" last year. According to the Straphangers,
subway managers consider a car clean when it has a "dingy floor [and]
one or two sticky dry spots." The entire Subway Shmutz II report is
available on the Straphangers Campaign website, http://home.earthlink.net/~straphangers/
Percentage of Subway Cars Rated "Clean"
or "Extra Clean"
