Why are NYC trains so hot?

Tiffany-Ann Taylor, the vice president for transportation at the Regional Plan Association, said that most subway platforms, barring the new ones such as at Hudson Yards, are hot because the air-conditioning on the trains generates heat that is pushed onto the subway platforms and then trapped.



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