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Are NYC subway stations heated?
NYC’s subway platforms are oppressively hot this summer (We can’t say exactly when that point happens, but it’s usually sometime in mid-July, when all of the humidity and heat from outside combines with the hot air belched from moving trains into one fetid, soupy mess.)
Why is it so hot in the Metro?
The heat in the tunnels is largely generated by the trains, with a small amount coming from station equipment and passengers. When the tunnels were built the clay temperature was around 14 °C; this has now risen to 19–26 °C and air temperatures in the tunnels now reach as high as 30 °C.
Why are train stations so hot?
In part, this happens because a train’s air-conditioning unit expels heat. But a lot of heat also comes from a train’s brakes. A lot of that brake energy gets turned into heat, which is released as trains approach and enter stations.
How hot does the underground get?
“The temperature of the Earth down 20 or 30 feet is a relatively constant number year-round, somewhere between 50 and 60 degrees” F, says John Kelly, the COO of the Geothermal Exchange Organization, a nonprofit trade organization in Washington, D.C., that lobbies for wider adoption of the technology.
When did New York subway get air conditioning?
1950s
1950s: Debut of Air Conditioning By the 1950s, New York City had purchased the private IRT and BMT lines, combining the three different services into a single New York City Transit Authority. Additional R-type cars had been introduced over time, but the biggest modification to subway cars was air conditioning.
Does the NYC Subway have AC?
“Ninety-eight percent of the 5,356 subway cars in service every day have working air conditioning, but nobody should suffer through a hot car in the summer, and we’re fighting hard against heat waves and an elderly fleet to fix those last few stubborn cars,” Lhota said in a statement to The Post Thursday.