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Good luck with that wheel chair access.
Wow, I thought my new york commute at rush hour was bad.
Imagine the poor slug that wanted to get out.
u see this is why japan>all
they wouldnt have to hang out so much if they had these guys
The traffic outside isn’t much better
yeah, the subways in nyc feel like this sometimes. This riding on the side of the train stuff would never fly in the sue-crazy US. First person to twist an ankle or slip a disk would sue the MTA right out of existance.
Damn hhopper, I have my first business trip to India next month and I didnt need to see this!! LOL!
We sent over one of our engineers to India, a Chinese fellow, and he says nothing can prepare you for India! He reports that every morning where he is, everyone comes out to have a dump in the ditch. Lined up and down the street men and women… I didn’t need to hear that either!! LOL
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My God, I love the USA!
#8 – TIHZ_HO
Strange customs… Just like some Asian people who insist on sitting with their feat on the seat while doing option #2.
This is what thousands of years of indiscriminate screwing will get you.
#11 you don’t get laid much do you?
Thank God (figuratively speaking… Im an atheist.. but I digress)
that I live in England! The less congested, more scenic, North of England with fresher air at that. That vid to me is hell… can you imagine the smell? The heat? The potential for getting pasted on some piece of the rail infrastructure… no thanks… India and China might be the next economic super powers but I think I’ll stay put here in good old western Europe.
It’s not surprising, highly populated places like japan also have similar issues.
It’s sad that every day they travel right on edge of their lives. People don’t understand that they could take next train just 3 minutes later. But then with life so short and time so scarce what options do they have?
people spend upwards of 2 hours just to get to their jobs, how much time is left for family and kids? In Mumbai, every second counts.
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From what I can see (from watching other Indian train videos) it looks like the doors on Indian trains are operated manually. Perhaps if automatic doors were used that might cut down on or eliminate the “out-hangers”.
Yeah Frank, it’s just that easy.
#10 Jägermeister Don’t you know it! LOL! They have these squat toilets here that tend to surprise you when surprising is not what you need at that particular moment – if you know what I mean! 😉
#15 Frank – In Shanghai it gets crowded on the subways – but not like India – and some of the busy stations have automatic doors on the platform and the train has automatic doors as well… and just the other week someone was caught between them… Not good.
The automatic doors on the train if they don’t close – because there is a person juxtaposed between them the train doesn’t move. So in India I guess the train at the first stop will just sit there – or has a dragger.
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TIHZ –
The doors on the Indian trains are manually operated – on other videos I saw trains which did not have the usual “out-hangers”, but most (but not all) of the doors were wide open.
John –
I don’t have any illusions that “outhanging” would disappear immediately after automatic doors are installed – it would take at least several months of adjustment as riders get over their old habits – with trains forced to wait for people stuck in the doors to either get all the way in the train (or back on the platform), arm injuries or worse, and likely vandalism to the doors.
Frank – “…as riders get over their old habits”
This isn’t a habit as you put it. Its not like “I think I won’t play tennis every Tuesday now, instead I’ll go hang outside of a train!”
They do this because there are too many people and not enough trains.
At a supermarket, the checkout lines stretch back to frozen foods do you think that is a habit??
If you want to fix the problem get more trains…
But don’t listen to me I’m a Commie Stooge! 😀
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