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The subway in Prague has a mixed (longitudinal and transverse) seat configuration. Which seat configuration does your subway have if you have one?

War überrascht, dass die U-Bahn in Prag eine gemixte Sitzkonfiguration (vertikale und horizontale Sitze) hat.

In Wien haben die U-Bahn-Züge eine Quersitz (transverse) Anordnung, während London, New York und Moskau die typische Längssitz-Anordnung aufweisen.

Welche Sitzkonfiguration hat eure U-Bahn, falls ihr eine habt?

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I was surprised that the subway in Prague has a mixed seating configuration (vertical and horizontal seats).

In Vienna, subway trains have transverse seating, while London, New York, and Moscow have the typical longitudinal seating arrangement.

What seating configuration does your subway have, if you have one?

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Seat configuration in Metro Line A (green line) in Prague

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Staroměstská Metro Station in Prague

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In Bucharest, metro's similar to London so whichever fancy word you used for that...longitudinal?:) But personally, I prefer Prague metro. It just feels weird, being in those long rows facing each other like an interrogatory, you know?

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Yeah, I know, most subways have the seats on the side like in Bucharest.

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The trains here have the longitudinal seating arrangement

!BBH

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Vertical und horizontal? Weiß gerade nicht was das in dem Zusammenhang bedeutet.

Haben keine Ubahn hier. Weiß gar nicht wann ich zuletzt und wo mit gefahren bin.

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I prefer the vertical and horizontal seats like in Hongkong

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We don't have a subway, but the trains run longitudinally.

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Die meisten U-Bahnen sind mittlerweile so angeordnet. Kenne ich aus Deutschland viel.

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The first trains for the Prague Metro in 1974 came from the Soviet Union and had longitudinal seating, as in Moscow. Individual Soviet trains ran after modifications until 2009.
Now it is as you describe.

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Oh interesting, that's why I was surprised, expected the Moscow layout.

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It is quite possible that the current seating arrangement has political roots. After the overthrow of the pro-Soviet government in 1989, many things in our country were done in exactly the opposite way to how they had been done before, in order to express a break with pseudo-communism.

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Schön wenn eine Beides hat kommt man mit Kinderwagen und ähnlichem besser rein und kann sich aussuchen wie es besser ist.

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We have like the Prague one!

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In Berlin hängt es von der Spurbreite ab. Die schmalen haben Sitze Gegenüber an den Längsseiten. Sonst 4er Gruppen links und rechts.

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Ist eine pragmatische Lösung, wenn die Züge breiter sind, gehen sich auch die bequemeren Quersitze besser aus.

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