"Less Crowded in 2008"

Morning crush-rush train travel. Better in 2008 than in 1991 - more trains, more train lines, more rails on existing lines. Same station, same time, and same express train as "Actually Full Train in 1991 (Why Flex-Time is a Good Idea" video.

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Travel & Events

Tags:

• crowded
• train
• Japan
• tokyo
• morning
• rush
• 朝の電車が前より良い

[Spokker]

It would seem that if the rail system in Japan pays for itself (100%+ farebox recovery), then they could always add more trains, more tracks and more stations until the problem of overcrowding is eliminated.

If the issue of overcrowding cannot be solve by building additional infrastructure, then it may be time to induce people to move to other areas that are not as crowded.

[lylehsaxon]

@Spokker They're constantly improving the system, and it's gotten a lot better, but moving 30,000,000 people around is a difficult task. As for decentralization - yes - that's definitely a good idea, but the bad economy has only caused Tokyo to grow even more - as bad as the economy is in Tokyo, it's even worse in the countryside, so people come to Tokyo looking for work, etc. - LHS

[Spokker]

@lylehsaxon It seems that you guys have the opposite problem Americans do. 

[lylehsaxon]

@Spokker There are several stations where a transfer is just walking across the platform, but in this case, it's just a faster train (Kyuko/Express) passing a slower train (Junkyu/Semi-express). The train on the right is the Express. - LHS

[lylehsaxon]

@lylehsaxon Correction!: The train on the *left* is the express! The one on the right is the Limited Express (Junkyu). - LHS

[scarecrowJ89]

oh, there was even some space left for another passenger^^

[clubpenguin777]

why dont they just get the next one?

[MrChowTheTroll]

And in Sydney, we bitch about our train being crowded..... which is nowhere worse as this....

[azumatify]

@clubpenguin777 to a Tokyoite, 3 minutes of idleness is eternity.

[lylehsaxon]

@Kreicherisch I'm not sure I'd say "morally" wrong, but companies can be very strict, and people are expected to be on time. - LHS

[Kreicherisch]

@clubpenguin777 I guess the next one was gonna be that packed too, and they had to get to work on time. Being late for 1 minute is very very morally wrong for Japanese people.

[lylehsaxon]

@tabrisangel22 Yeah, a lot of transfers are really easy - just walking across the platform. In this case, the train on the left is a regular express and the one on the right is a slower train, but both are headed in the same direction. Some stations have transfers like this where you can transfer to a completely different line. - LHS