Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Food & Drink Metro-North Bar Cars to Be Resurrected, Defeated Salarymen to Stay Drunk
Posted by Jonny Diamond on Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 9:36 AM
- The soft judder of a warm train; the bitter glow of a stiff drink.
But no! Thanks to clamoring drunks in beige trench coats everywhere, the Connecticut D.O.T. has come up with a new design for bar cars that should be ready by 2012, which will include more seats and, to the dismay of some regular commuter drinkers, less room for standing and mingling. Says Connecticut Rail Commuter Councilmember Terri Cronin:
[The old bar car was] like a big group party. You end up talking to all these people you never would have talked to if you were sitting in all these little social pods everywhere.
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