The British art of queuing

Published by Ewan on Thursday 27th August 2009, 17:50 Comments | Filed under: General

I am seriously impressed by how smart and efficient the workers departing Canary Wharf Jubilee Line are queuing. They all line up (sometimes 8 people deep) by the doors to board. Very sensible, very efficient. Nobody pushing in front. No mass of people squeezing themselves randomly into carriages. Absolutely fascinating.

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  • Unlike 8.30am on the Northern Line. Used to scare me so much I bought a push bike to get to and from work.
  • This greatly depends on country. In Finland, people can queue for hours at 4 in the morning on a Friday night and not push, fight or shove. It's fascinating. Then I went to Estonia for a quick holiday and getting on a bus was an exercise of using my elbow to jam people's ribs. Shocking difference considering they're only a 2.5 hour boat ride away.
  • weirdshanghai
    congrats they have learned something that we in Hong Kong have been doing 15 deep for the last 18 years :) very nice to see.
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