Train Ettiquette
Posted by: LT17
22nd Feb 2011 12:10pm
However, I'm wondering if anyone else is frustrated with the following types of behaviours on the train, or whether it is just understood and unnoticed, that these simple gestures of kindness no longer exist
- People pushing in front of you to be first on the train, just as the train arrives, when you have been waiting patiently at that spot for some time
- Men sitting next to you with their legs spread far apart, so they take up half of your seat.
- High School students who pay a portion fare and still sit down
- People talking loudly on their mobiles
- People who have sat the entire trip, not waiting until those who have stood the entire trip get off the train.
Am I the only one?
matey2
- 19th Aug 2011 01:40pm
because of the popularity of train travel it is now very hard to monitor those few that spoil it for others, as a train manager, ie the one that opens the doors, if i see adults standing and students sitting i approach them and tell to either pay a full fare or make way for the full paying passenger, this works 90% of the time, there are people who sit in the seats just to the left and right of the doors with their feet stretched right out so that in order for me to pass i continuely tell them to get their feet out from the aisle, this is a frustrating problem and its mostlyl men that do this one time i just about tripped over these feet, when we got to newmartket i asked the passenger where he was going, he said Manurewa, i informed him that unless he moved his feet this train was not moving and that in order for him to get home he better stand or catch another train or get his feet out of my pathway, i will not ask you again, consequently he got the message.
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