A few days ago I rode in one of the Metro cars with the new experimental, more New York-like seat configurations. On alternating sides of the train car they’ve removed one set of forward-/rear-facing seats and replaced them with inward-facing seats next to the two that are normally there, and removed the glass barrier. It gives some more room to stand and let people pass by as they leave the train while still leaving plenty of seating. I very much liked the new setup and hope they expand it linewide. The trade-off of course is that there are fewer seats, so old people and pregnant women are going to have to suck up the Milgram anxiety and ask people for seats if no one offers, but as one who’s usually standing, anyway, it doesn’t affect me much.