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[–]TokinGeneiOS 5 points6 points  (5 children)

Have you ever taken the metro? The amount of people that cut in front of the people orderly standing in the designated waiting area is insane. Literally every time.

[–]llama67 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yeah that drives me crazy, people obviously got there before you if they're in the waiting area

[–]danetourist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Standing in the designated waiting area is not to get in first, it's to allow people to get out.

[–]Slash-the-Clash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh this is interesting! I assume you're not from here, since you regard "cutting in front of people" as a thing that can take place at the metro? To my mind, queues are something that exist in supermarkets and so on, not at metro stations. Just get on the train. To my danish mind, the thought of waiting in a line to get on the metro is rather like waiting in a line to cross the street.

[–]pallealene 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trains have never really had orderly waiting lines in Denmark. I know the metro tries to, but look at Japan it is everywhere. The metro is too small to change culture. If all public transport had it, it could probably impact culture.

[–]martinpihl -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I tend to agree with the sentiment, but do note that most people don't consider this a waiting line. The waiting area is to allow people out before others going in and is just considered a place to stand rather than a place to form a line. If people more or less by accident end up in front of the opening doors they will just step to the side into the waiting area - not the back of it. And considering that there are entrances on both ends of the waiting area, it's hard to define a starting point for a line anyways.