On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 04:46:27 +0000, asdf
wrote:

On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:49:59 +0000, Paul Corfield wrote:

Still I don't believe in "doing a city" by going round in an air
conditioned tourist coach. I think it adds to the experience to travel
about how the residents do - the Tokyo rail system is certainly an
experience ;-)

Perhaps LU could pick up a few tips on how to get that extra bit of
capacity out of the system? ;-)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/scott-5...n/set-1713171/

There are some other good pictures in that series.

Having looked at the comments there are some YouTube links and this
shows the early rush hour apparently

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9E7J7MLko4&NR

as it's not very busy.

I never used the subway at rush hour but did have to use a JR train from
Shinjuku to Ikebukuro. That was an experience - especially as I had
luggage! Ikebukuro is also the busiest or second busiest (I forget
which) station in Tokyo - I don't think I have ever seen quite so many
people in what is not a huge amount of space. Still it's all very well
organised and the commuters are all very compliant so it works. I'm not
at all sure that London would tolerate quite the same conditions as
Tokyo although I appreciate it's not far off in a number of places.
--
Paul C


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