The obvious
few months ago I travel every day on the Metro, sometimes several times a day. You already know: the Metro is everything, crowding, shoving, arrimones, elbows, noisy vendors, people running, people crying, people laughing, and so on. Obvious: everything is peak power.
But something that always caused me curious is how people use the stairs power, no matter what time or line involved. For a month and a half I started to make notes about things he saw and the ideas that were happening to me.
We've all seen that there are people that are strategically placed in certain cars so that when you arrive at that station, be the first to go out and run up the escalators.
Yes, usually there is always an initial flow of people, more rushed, they do not stop walking down the stairs. The curious thing happens when suddenly the right time always varies, some people get up and leave no progress, creating turn what is called "traffic waves". Even more curious: when this happens, almost no one says anything, no matter if behind those who are blocking the way there is someone who is dying to continue walking.
There is a kind of tacit acceptance that we can not ask the front to put aside. Those who do are very few, almost anyone. Also, if you have to be the last to leave the car, it is tiresome having to "ask permission" to forty people that will surely go to see rare and will not make you case.
All this gives me a mixture of laughter and courage. Several times in Chabacano station, I have to see that the first people to climb escalators become completely standing next to each other. An opportunity was hilarious seeing all the people behind two plump ladies, and nobody could move forward, some all they did was move his feet as a sign of impatience. It was a huge queue. To top it off, then another train came, people went down and the tail was endless. In truth, I wanted to record it and put it on youtube.
situation
Whether it rush hour or not, people tend to stop anywhere in the ranks. Do not give me no. Nor me say it is inefficient to leave a free line at peak hours. If a row is open, people walk by it. It would be rare that "all" are tired and everyone wants to make a filototota the right side and one on the left side.
One more: escalator travels faster and easier, that's what they are intended. If I climb the stairs or under normal, is likely to come at the same time that those who are "resting" in power. But if I walk in the power came in half the time. Plain common sense, as my dear teacher says Esquivel. And finally, I see a rush one day in one of the stations orange line, and up the stairs chorromil there.
As I said, not about how many people there. Agglomerations are everywhere and, at least in the subways of Montreal, Madrid, Barcelona, \u200b\u200bBerlin, they try to respect this comment. No matter if you just finished a concert or a festival and there are thousands of people using the stairs. Can you tell me that in Tokyo, NY or anywhere else does not go well. Well. So?
Well, maybe some will say "oh, no big deal" or "da pushing to pass" or make fun of something as seemingly banal, but the thing goes further. It These forms of mobility and social interaction are not small matters. I do not want elbowing and a set of impertinent fool and knows what else. I just want to respect a basic principle of motion in almost all meters in the world, people hurry up with the row of the left and those who want to "rest" a moment he stood on the right side.
The politicism
recently talked with someone about this and he said he had once already tried a campaign called "Left to move, right to stop, but obviously some politicians right jumped up and tore their clothes, saying it was something electioneering, a form of indoctrination and so on. The Public Transport System then put tiny signs that says "give way to the left" or something, but they are very visible and in any case, useless.
Even before even explain my project, I began to pour some criticisms and comments that "after you use the other stairs" or "post is that it is very difficult to do something."
I say we do not have to be so difficult and that nothing is lost in trying to change something, whether as "X" as what I'm saying. The escalators are not just for "rest", but also serve to increase or decrease faster.
The project, as it: up there.
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