{"id":1997,"date":"2012-03-11T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/new-york-city-subway-system-clean-enough-to-eat-off-the-floor\/"},"modified":"2021-08-17T09:12:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T13:12:59","slug":"new-york-city-subway-system-clean-enough-to-eat-off-the-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/new-york-city-subway-system-clean-enough-to-eat-off-the-floor\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City Subway System &#8211; Clean Enough to Eat Off the Floor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quote from an MTA official in New York City had heads turning and passengers cringing this week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In response to criticism over dirty stations, MTA Director of Governmental Affairs Hilary Ring reportedly claimed the Times Square subway station floor was practically clean enough to eat off of.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The \u201csay what?!\u201d remark came after Councilman Peter Koo claimed that some of the MTA\u2019s worst stations appeared \u201cthird world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In fairness, both claims are probably wildly exaggerated. While the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/cheap-flights\/new-york-city-nyc-new-york-deals\">New York City<\/a> subway is far from the cleanest system in the world, it is arguably the hardest working. The system is one of only a few to run 24 hours a day and transports nearly 5 million people daily.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/mta-times-square-subway-station-floor-clean-eat-article-1.1034289\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Daily News<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CC Flickr photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/winton\/3718894004\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Steve Winton <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quote from an MTA official in New York City had heads turning and passengers cringing this week. &nbsp; In response to criticism over dirty stations, MTA Director of Governmental Affairs Hilary Ring reportedly claimed the Times Square subway station floor was practically clean enough to eat off of. &nbsp; The \u201csay what?!\u201d remark came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98908456,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions\/98908456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}