Opportunity knocks: No longer should vandalism depress railcar designers. Solutions offer innovative materials and new creative opportunities

摘要

Many designers have probably dreamed of public transport trains or metro graced with fine-hide seats, deep-pile wool carpeting and deeply varnished veneers, perhaps in a traditional English style, The vision would involve the community affording funds for the use of the finest materials and appliances for public transport - tea and coffee dispensers, individual flat screens, etc - in the knowledge that everybody would take care of it and look after it, as carefully as if it was their own personal property. Obviously this is just a fantasy, as every item, material, or piece of equipment in close and continuous contact with human beings will suffer wear and tear, even in a clinically clean environment like the Singapore metro system.