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People who block the train doors to let people off are missing the point
Every morning on the 7:15 into Manhattan, I see some guy plant himself right in front of the doors while people are trying to exit. You're supposed to step to the side, not become a human barricade. It adds at least 30 seconds to every stop when nobody can move. How hard is it to just wait two feet to the left?
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bennett.jana1mo ago
Why not just stand to the side and wait? People need room.
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harper_foster1mo ago
And what makes you think standing to the side actually gives people enough space when they're trying to squeeze past a crowd? In my experience, that "room" just becomes a narrow gap everyone has to shuffle through single file, which makes the whole thing take twice as long. Isn't the real problem here that nobody's willing to just pause and let others move first?
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claire_gibson1mo ago
Honestly, I see it the opposite way. In a busy subway station in Boston, if everyone just paused and waited their turn, you'd have a pile-up at every door. Standing to the side creates a predictable flow - people walking through know exactly where the gap is and can move at their own pace without bumping into someone who's just frozen in place. The bottleneck isn't the single-file shuffle, it's the person who stops dead in the middle of the walkway trying to "let everyone go first" and causing a traffic jam behind them.
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