Rear-facing seats coming to NE Regional
Mar 3, 2024, 2:47 am
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I can't find an amtrak specific video of rotating a seat, but doesn't each pair have a lever like this, so I assume it's operated in a similar way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezyazUnueFI&t=11s
This takes no more than a few seconds per seat pair
This takes no more than a few seconds per seat pair
Mar 3, 2024, 9:07 am
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Of course Amtrak went with fixed bidirectional seating on the new trainsets because it "allows for faster turn around time" (ie: lower labor costs), but the correct solution, also found in Japan, would be
, at least for the new Acela.
For the existing trainsets, I wonder if they're actually going to fix the seats into place somehow, or if they're simply not going to rotate them further once they're in the 50/50 configuration.
For the existing trainsets, I wonder if they're actually going to fix the seats into place somehow, or if they're simply not going to rotate them further once they're in the 50/50 configuration.