The Virginia Railway Express is asking that riders be a bit kinder to their trains.
The transportation agency said they have had several of their cup holders broken, seat covers ripped, and clogged toilets in recent weeks.
The agency said each broken cup holder costs $125 each, a cost that is passed onto the taxpayer.
Taxpayers also have to foot the cost for each toilet tank that has to be pumped or removed because a passenger put too many paper towels in it -- at a cost of $1,300.
A ripped seat cover also costs about $225 dollars to fix.
"So please, do not use the cup holders to pull yourself out of a seat. Do not place heavy luggage on seats where the can rip or poke holes into the seat covers. And please, never ever put a paper towel into the toilet," a VRE spokesman said in an e-mail.
-- Uriah A. Kiser
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