http://subwayblogger.com/2007/08/24/japanese-style-subway-stuffing/ The only blog written from the NYC Subway system Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:23:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://subwayblogger.com/2007/08/24/japanese-style-subway-stuffing/comment-page-1/#comment-13141 dave Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:07:13 +0000 http://subwayblogger.com/2007/08/24/japanese-style-subway-stuffing/#comment-13141 This 'works' in Japan for several good reasons. Their system carries even more people... The Japanese riders, random strangers to each other, work together more like a team in understanding in a unwritten rule kind of way that they are all in the car together. Their subways have no mystery on arrival times and frequencies. The Japanese society is very clean (bodily and otherwise) you won't get away being crammed together with NYC style riders that come from every poor immmigrant culture you can think of, and some people that just smell from even 10 feet away. This ‘works’ in Japan for several good reasons. Their system carries even more people… The Japanese riders, random strangers to each other, work together more like a team in understanding in a unwritten rule kind of way that they are all in the car together. Their subways have no mystery on arrival times and frequencies. The Japanese society is very clean (bodily and otherwise) you won’t get away being crammed together with NYC style riders that come from every poor immmigrant culture you can think of, and some people that just smell from even 10 feet away.

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