Crowded subway in Tokyo

June 1st, 2008 Peter Korkala

Why don’t they just increase the train capacity in some way? Add more vehicles or trains? Or is it impossible without expanding the rail-network? Click on the image to see a video on YouTube where they are pushing people into the subway train.

The people hired to push people into the train is called Oshiya in Japanese. In what other cities are there people hired to push people?

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