Well, it looks like the New York City Transit is having a problem with the state of cleanliness of their 468 underground (subway, as they call them :-)) stations. This comes on top of the the “decrepit, aging system fraught with overcrowded trains, crumbling platforms and stations, unfinished repair work, serious rat and cockroach infestations, mystery ooze dripping from ceilings and termite-eaten signs”, as the NYC Post survey of dosens of stations has confirmed.

It seems that less than 100 stations (about 21%) are in acceptable condition - a result of the reduced station cleaning in recent years. Now it has become a major problem. Although the extra cleaners have been urgently employed, it looks that the station cleaning issue is going to take some time to get resolved. At the moment there’s on average only one cleaner assigned to every 5 stations. Blimey,  is this New York City I am writing about?!

The good news is that extra funding has been sourced but until everything is up to Big Apple’s usual standards the commuters will have to bear with the current state of cleanliness.

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