By Yepoka Yeebo
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — NYC Transit has abandoned plans for subway cars without seats, according to the Daily News.
The plan was to put for cars with flip-up seats in the middle of a 10-carriage train. Seats would be chained in the "up" position during rush hour forcing all passengers in the cars to stand, but cramming in more commuters.
A one-train pilot scheme was due to begin this year, the News reports, but with fair hikes and services slashed, NYC Transit feared angering passengers.
"People are already feeling they're paying more for less," a transit official told the News.
"I don't know that a train like that, even though the idea was to increase capacity, was something that the public would have embraced.
"We're not going down that road."
Andrew Albert, the riders' representative on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority board said cattle cars would have led to protests, the paper reported.
"I think there would have been civil disobedience," Albert said.
"I think people would have brought bolt cutters and unlocked the seats. I hated that idea. I still do," he told the News.
"We shouldn't be telling people they can't have seats."
