Re: (NSW Cityrail) Passenger behaviour

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"White Family" <whitefamily@pacific.net.au> wrote in message
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> My impression is that passengers are becoming steadily more unwilling to
> move out of the vestibules and down or up into the main seating areas,
even
> when these are not full. There has always been a tendency to step through
> the door and stop dead on the spot, on the part of some people, but now
> these are more commonly found barricading the doorways completely or
sitting
> on the stairs.
>
> Why do passengers suffer paralysis immediately upon entry to the car? My
> experience is that there is always a seat to be found in the 3-wide
benches
> (even though you might have to press on in the face of some determinedly
> negative body language!). At Town Hall particularly it is difficult to get
> off or on through the press of claustrophobic people who think the doorway
> is provided for them to stand in. I have heard abuse from suchlike when
> requested to let others get off or on.
>
> What is the answer? Don't bother? Blasts of rotten egg gas from a hidden
> nozzle? Is it a problem at all?

Stick the elbows out and try and hit as many people as possible in the
rib-cages as hard as possible, apologise when you do so, and if they
complain, say something along the lines of "Well, if you had moved into the
carriage, I would not have hit you."

Dave