From: frank theriault
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Another "rush hour on the subway" shot:
>>
>> http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/2011/01/room-for-one-more.html
>>
>> Hope you enjoy. ?Comments welcome.
>
> Wimps! In London they'd get another 15 in there.
Well, "Room for One More" was just the title, I'm sure there's room
for plenty more than that.
Torontonians are really bad at several things, and the top two (in my
books) are properly queuing, and moving all the way into the subway
(away from the doors) or moving to the back of the bus/streetcar.
Everybody in this town (except me, of course!) seems to get in the
doors and ~stop~, when there's plenty more standing room farther into
the car. Of course this leads to inefficient loading of vehicles and
traffic jams by the doors (impeding ingress and egress to the cars).
So, chances are that just inside the doors there's plenty of room.
There always is...
I think it might be a flaw inherent in the implementation of the concept
of the subway system.
I've ridden subways in Mexico City, Mexico; Washington, DC; Glasgow,
Scotland; Hong Kong, Nanjing and Beijing, China - and it's been the same
way on every one of them.
The subway only stays in the station for a few seconds before moving on.
If you move into the car away from the door, it's going to be much more
difficult to fight your way through the crowd to get OFF of the car when
the train arrives at your station.
You could make it more convenient for passengers to move into the car by
keeping the train in the station longer, but then the riders would
revolt over the length of the delays.
Just thinking about it now, organizing the subway the way transit buses
work, where you enter through the front door & exit through a rear door
might make it flow a little smoother. Each car might have an entry and
an exit with one way traffic between them through the car.
But, how would you enforce that for long enough for it become the
cultural norm?
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