Sunday, December 04, 2005

basic public transport manners

Life travelling on public transport is sometimes delightful, provided it's not crowded. However, if it had to be crowded, i'm still ok with it, just as long as the people on board respect one another by practising the basic public transport manners, such as dun talk out loud over the cell phone, no shouting, no jumping about, and most importantly, allow the commuters to first disembark, before hopping into the vehicle themselves.

I was on my way to KLCC today, travelling by KTM komuter and Putra LRT. The crowd was scary, both at kepong station, KL sentral and KLCC stops. The scariest part was entering and exiting the train. The moment the doors of the trains opened, mobs of people immediately pushed and squirmed into the trains amidst the disembarking people. I saw excited and smiling people squeezing their body into the train, while grumpy and frustrated people squeezing themselves out of the unnecessarily-choked doors. The remaining commuters on board were squeezing themselves together, congestion. The same episode repeated itself at every station that the trains stopped, right from kepong to KLCC (10 stations i think).

I wonder do Malaysian parents and teachers teach their children public transport manners? Respecting other commuters. What an important subject. It was downright irritating to the people trying to get out of the trains, fearing the doors will close shall they fail to make their way out on time.

Don't ppl realize that the traffic could be much smoother should they allow ppl to disembark first?

Or perhaps they love the squirming and squeezing experiences? Not me.

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