Check out this video in Japan. How would you like to head off to work like this? LOL http://www.chilloutzone.de/files/08040701.html
concerts are brillaint and a big pastime for me, but i get worried about the crowds before i go, i have to take deep breaths,
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The 4/5 trains in NY during the morning commute aren't that bad (we don't have MTA officials pushing us in) but it's sort of close. You don't have to hold on to anything because everyone's so squished together, there's no chance of you falling or stumbling.
It looks fake because there isn't anyone left in line when they're done. It's not like they were fighting to get on the train. They knew exactly how many people they were going to shove in and had just that amount standing there. No ones going to hold their breath with a knee in their eye or risk injury by the railmen shoving them if the next train is going to be empty. Just my opinion, but I've seen stranger things that were true, like how some in Japan rent a drawer to sleep in instead of an apartment. Because they're always working and only need somewhere to sleep rather than somewhere to collect items they're never around to use. Just the essentials. I would die before living like that.
It's not wonderful, it's acceptable. They have to "push" people in, because they stand in the doorway of the subway train, and the train can't move on, until all the doors close. I might rather be squeezed in, than wait for the next subway train. But then if there's that many people, maybe the wait for the next train, is but only a few minutes. I rode the subway trains in Washington D.C. and in Seoul, Korea. Better than driving. The subway systems work pretty good. One of the advantages of big cities. Making subway systems cost-effective. With less population, the buses, run around once an hour, a rather long wait.
