The Stench on the El Cars

[wislad]

I know it's hot out but the stench on the El cars, especially on the commute home, is horrible. The minute the doors open and you walk in off of a sweltering hot platform, it hits you right in the face. It smells like a huge hamper full of dirty laundry, even with the A/C!

How about some air freshener? Remember those stick-up air fresheners? How about placing some of them under some of the seats or on the ceiling in each car? Or, how about thoroughly cleaning the cars on a regular basis? Newsflash--those guys picking up trash and litter every morning doesn't constitute cleaning.

Ridership is up so SEPTA should vamp up cleaning and maintenance.

[TLP]

I don't know... I've always found the wave of putrid hot air that rolls into the air contioned cars at each station to be worse. Especially at 11th - it's unbearable.

[wislad]

I don't know... I've always found the wave of putrid hot air that rolls into the air contioned cars at each station to be worse. Especially at 11th - it's unbearable.

Fans blowing stinkin' hot air, or the scent of dirty laundry? It's a catch-22!

And you are right--the 11th Street Eastbound platform smells like rotting garbage and feces all year round. Maybe there's a dead body in that trash can at the top far end of the platform. At the very least, mommies-on-the-move are throwing poopy diapers in there. I guess they don't know to take along some baggies with twist ties with their spare diapers when they are traveling.

[Sharamore]

It's smelled like that for 103 years, it's not new.

[mixiboi]

I know it's hot out but the stench on the El cars, especially on the commute home, is horrible. The minute the doors open and you walk in off of a sweltering hot platform, it hits you right in the face. It smells like a huge hamper full of dirty laundry, even with the A/C!

How about some air freshener? Remember those stick-up air fresheners? How about placing some of them under some of the seats or on the ceiling in each car? Or, how about thoroughly cleaning the cars on a regular basis? Newsflash--those guys picking up trash and litter every morning doesn't constitute cleaning.

The El cars are running NONSTOP from the morning they start running trains again. 69th St to Frankford and repeat. There is NO time for cleaning. The only time the trains stop that cycle is if there is a break down.

But every car is CLEAN every night as I seen when I lived up there. Every morning a fresh car was there at 5AM and by the end of the day that same car would be in a level of conditions: from "not that bad" to "soda spilled all over the car".


People smell, maybe we can get AXE to be a sponsor of the EL and add their smells to the train A/C system.

[wislad]

There is no way the inside of every El car is cleaned every night. No way.

[mixiboi]

Oh I would love to film a EL car go from clean to dirty.

But seeing that not every El car is use everyday, it is possible for them to rotate and clean them before service.


Just not during service...

[3rd&Brown]

Now that I'm unemployed and not commuting to NJ every day, I've been riding the EL more than ever. I've been pleasantly surprised by how clean the cars and my station (Spring Garden) have been...or maybe it's just a fluke?

[mixiboi]

Now that I'm unemployed and not commuting to NJ every day, I've been riding the EL more than ever. I've been pleasantly surprised by how clean the cars and my station (Spring Garden) have been...or maybe it's just a fluke?

Spring Garden isn't a hard station to keep clean. Its the underground ones that are the issues..

[desolate]

This is why covering the air with this new Dilworth Plaza will only make City Hall reek worse.

11th and 13th sticks because the homeless use the emergency exits as toilets, and that's where you're air is pulled in from the piston actions of the train.

[drewrob23]

Maybe it's harder to keep the cars on the blue line clean, because they have fabric on the seats and it traps odor? I just say that because I know for sure that the orange line cars are cleaned on a regular basis and they also don't have fabric on the seats. Since my move to the NE, I've noticed a number of passengers on the el, that don't seem to worried about their hygiene. I can only imagine, whose been sitting in the seat before me. Maybe it's time to start standing the whole ride.