If I ever used a subway I wouldn’t get near the tracks until the train had arrive, stopped and opened the doors.
I get it but when the train arrives about 100 people push out the doors as everyone on the platform at the same time often try to push IN the doors.
The doors only stay open a few min if you don’t get in you wait for the next train. You say, ok. Wait for the next train? It’s a repeat scenario...all day long.
It’s crazy.
Me too.
Being born and raised in new york city, many was the time i rode the subways long before pushing people onto the tracks became a thing. Even then i used to take precautions against being pushed or accidentally falling on the tracks.
I stayed as far from the edge as possible until my train came in for a full stop. Id plant my back up against the wall. For a platform that was bordered by tracks on both sides and had no wall, I’d plant myself inside one of those I-beams. Any nut looking to push me onto the tracks would have to make the I-beam go with me.
All the time in the subways there always were several people who would stand right at the edge of the platform. Their toes touching the very edge. Theres just no lack of stupid people. Making themselves a tempting target for someone to push them over, or just slip off the platform accidentally.
Then when they could hear the train coming in, they’d lean forward to look down the tunnel. I’d think to myself, “standing on the edge of the platform and looking down the tunnel isnt going to bring the train in any faster, people”