Whatever your thoughts on graffiti, covering the windows is a cunts trick.
Reminds me of Barcelona. And not in a good way.
I know art is subjective but this makes our city look like a fucking ghetto.
Graffiti just leads to other crimes. Do you know why most cities in East Asia (especially Singapore) are so clean and safe? Because they go down hard on small crimes like that. They should clean up the trains before letting them be used.
It’s always terrible how these people doing graffiti aren’t even creative in the slightest. They’re just writing big nonsensical texts.
Not a fan of vandalism but admittedly the Thameslink trains are very plan and dull looking. I’d fully support if they commissioned artists to properly paint around the windows and doors to give the trains some colour. It’d hopefully crack down on illegal graffiti whilst also giving a bit of character to such bland trains.
Minus covering the windows, I like it
If this offends people, please avoid Berlin, you wouldn’t like it very much.
Love the pops of color, really adds an extra dimension to what would otherwise be, sterility by design.
Arrest these pricks and shame them before imprisonment.
It’s nothing but vandalism..
I think the middle ground between ‘I love the art’ and ‘this is vandalism’ is that TfL should get in artists to paint and decorate trains, in a way that avoids the windows, and be glossed over so the trains can be cleaned without the paint fading.
Overall this just adds to the sense that along with phone snatching, that crime is backsliding in London, as they’re both very visible crimes.
I wonder if a train driver feels a kind of violation turning up to work to find the train they’re driving has been trashed.
I see Tommy fake name’s gammons are here.
Waiting for the “bUt iT loOKs goOd” brigade. Fuck off, I paid for that train with my fares and taxes.
I’m not pleased about my tax money being used to clean up this very expensive mess. Cunts
Oh that looks good doesn’t it. /s
Anyone claiming ‘this is fine’ needs to have their house completely graffitied so that our tax money doesn’t need to be spent on cleaning it up
It makes the city more colourful, in a grey winter I love bits like this. If people don’t like this because of cleaning cost then I’d love to see more spaces in our daily lives where they don’t clean it up.
Stop rage baiting the sub’s Richmond dwelling R4 listeners please
op after posting this rage bait ass post
horrible
10-15 years back it was much more common to see Graf on the side of Thameslink (edit: as someone has pointed out they were First Capital Connect then) trains (not the southern ones interestingly) more recently i thought it had more or less gone away which i put down to the depots being more secure and also being in Brighton whereas I ‘think’ they were out in Croydon previously.
Change all the train designs to graffiti intentionally and let’s see what these vandals do.
I hate this.
Interestingly they found having a zero tolerance for graffiti ie cleaning it up immediately it stops the destruction of other things. Leaving graffiti in place makes people not care. Places that get cleaned up get treated better and less likely to get destroyed as much.
No more offensive than the prices of the train tickets and the awful service.
Disgraceful vandalism and anyone who pretends otherwise is delusional
I like how colourful it is but I personally wouldn’t be covering the windows
Kind of like 70s New York we saw in films…
Europe has a major graffiti problem and I don’t know how it hasn’t been solved yet
People who do this are disgusting
Who new this sub was filled with pearl clutching middle class melts with delicate sensibilities.
There’s more outrage over the graffiti than there is over the extortionate fares and bad customer service from the train companies..
Better off posting on r/graffiti I for one fucking love seeing some colour on the trains!
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I know it’s not the topic of this post. But in 50 years the sound of these trains moving out of the stations will still be engraved in my brain. I will never forget it.
It’s a Thameslink class 700. Doing anything to it is an improvement. I would prefer if they upholstered the seats to be comfortable.
Part of the issue is Thameslink stock being berthed in relatively insecure locations so that people can get in overnight and do nonsense like this.
It will be eventually be cleaned, but ultimately if it’s not wildly offensive, it will be sorted end of the day otherwise there will be cancellations.
ugly shite.
Some clean work.
Love to see it
Is anti graffiti paint/glass not a thing?
Im getting old because this looks tacky very tacky
Well, brightens up dull af trains.
how do they even manage to spray paint them without being caught
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Whatever your thoughts on graffiti, covering the windows is a cunts trick.
Reminds me of Barcelona. And not in a good way.
I know art is subjective but this makes our city look like a fucking ghetto.
Graffiti just leads to other crimes. Do you know why most cities in East Asia (especially Singapore) are so clean and safe? Because they go down hard on small crimes like that. They should clean up the trains before letting them be used.
It’s always terrible how these people doing graffiti aren’t even creative in the slightest. They’re just writing big nonsensical texts.
Not a fan of vandalism but admittedly the Thameslink trains are very plan and dull looking. I’d fully support if they commissioned artists to properly paint around the windows and doors to give the trains some colour. It’d hopefully crack down on illegal graffiti whilst also giving a bit of character to such bland trains.
Minus covering the windows, I like it
If this offends people, please avoid Berlin, you wouldn’t like it very much.
Love the pops of color, really adds an extra dimension to what would otherwise be, sterility by design.
Arrest these pricks and shame them before imprisonment.
It’s nothing but vandalism..
I think the middle ground between ‘I love the art’ and ‘this is vandalism’ is that TfL should get in artists to paint and decorate trains, in a way that avoids the windows, and be glossed over so the trains can be cleaned without the paint fading.
Overall this just adds to the sense that along with phone snatching, that crime is backsliding in London, as they’re both very visible crimes.
I wonder if a train driver feels a kind of violation turning up to work to find the train they’re driving has been trashed.
I see Tommy fake name’s gammons are here.
Waiting for the “bUt iT loOKs goOd” brigade. Fuck off, I paid for that train with my fares and taxes.
I’m not pleased about my tax money being used to clean up this very expensive mess. Cunts
Oh that looks good doesn’t it. /s
Anyone claiming ‘this is fine’ needs to have their house completely graffitied so that our tax money doesn’t need to be spent on cleaning it up
It makes the city more colourful, in a grey winter I love bits like this. If people don’t like this because of cleaning cost then I’d love to see more spaces in our daily lives where they don’t clean it up.
Stop rage baiting the sub’s Richmond dwelling R4 listeners please
op after posting this rage bait ass post
horrible
10-15 years back it was much more common to see Graf on the side of Thameslink (edit: as someone has pointed out they were First Capital Connect then) trains (not the southern ones interestingly) more recently i thought it had more or less gone away which i put down to the depots being more secure and also being in Brighton whereas I ‘think’ they were out in Croydon previously.
Happy to be corrected.
https://preview.redd.it/okpzp5bmjouf1.jpeg?width=1320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7227f3eee0aec7e47c64a561a5af2a809dca9149
Change all the train designs to graffiti intentionally and let’s see what these vandals do.
I hate this.
Interestingly they found having a zero tolerance for graffiti ie cleaning it up immediately it stops the destruction of other things. Leaving graffiti in place makes people not care. Places that get cleaned up get treated better and less likely to get destroyed as much.
No more offensive than the prices of the train tickets and the awful service.
Disgraceful vandalism and anyone who pretends otherwise is delusional
I like how colourful it is but I personally wouldn’t be covering the windows
Kind of like 70s New York we saw in films…
Europe has a major graffiti problem and I don’t know how it hasn’t been solved yet
People who do this are disgusting
Who new this sub was filled with pearl clutching middle class melts with delicate sensibilities.
There’s more outrage over the graffiti than there is over the extortionate fares and bad customer service from the train companies..
Better off posting on r/graffiti I for one fucking love seeing some colour on the trains!
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I know it’s not the topic of this post. But in 50 years the sound of these trains moving out of the stations will still be engraved in my brain. I will never forget it.
It’s a Thameslink class 700. Doing anything to it is an improvement. I would prefer if they upholstered the seats to be comfortable.
Part of the issue is Thameslink stock being berthed in relatively insecure locations so that people can get in overnight and do nonsense like this.
It will be eventually be cleaned, but ultimately if it’s not wildly offensive, it will be sorted end of the day otherwise there will be cancellations.
ugly shite.
Some clean work.
Love to see it
Is anti graffiti paint/glass not a thing?
Im getting old because this looks tacky very tacky
Well, brightens up dull af trains.
how do they even manage to spray paint them without being caught
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