train stuffing tokyo
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1:06 · 5.5M views · May 11, 2009
Short 2006 footage of station staff in white gloves pushing commuters onto a packed morning train at a Tokyo station on the Toyoko Line.
Linked as the standard illustration of Tokyo's rush-hour crowding whenever commuting and density come up.
4 comments from Hacker News
Can you imagine the lawsuits if we were to have staff push people here? this video By the way, as bad as things are in New York MTA, I find it much better than the stupidity of the path train (panynj). We have like four routes to manage and we can't do that properly.
It would need testing to show they don't have a prevalence of "mild" cases. Not to mention we should have numbers on how often they wear masks. Last I saw, it was not everyone that did that. Edit for reference: this video
Most people commute by train. We are improving, but the morning commute is something foreigners consider particularly wacky, and not something that they want to repeat everyday. this video
Japan has also been known to cram passengers into trains during rush hour. I imagine this practice has probably been fervently deprecated due to covid19. this video