Heathrow connect shutting doors while passengers are still queueing

[causton]

What a dreadful and insensitive way to make a point. The one further up (@Permit to Travel) about committing violence was no better either.

If you travel on the Underground at peak time, you will know the examples are not exaggerations.

 

[Tetchytyke]

What a dreadful and insensitive way to make a point.

I'm obviously using hyperbole, but seriously, if someone really did block the doors for "ten minutes" they'd be shoved off the train PDQ. If you dawdle too long at the ticket barrier you get flattened.

 

[MCR247]

What a dreadful and insensitive way to make a point. The one further up (@Permit to Travel) about committing violence was no better either.

Have you never been on the tube in rush hour then? That sounded like what probably would happen!

 

[Dr_Intoxicated]

I witnessed something very similar last year on a SWT in the rush hour heading to Waterloo.

Each time the doors started to close a woman held them open until her friend appeared sauntering up the platform with the two coffees she had been buying rather than getting to the platform on time.

The guard also made an announcement at the time but no action was taken.

 

[bb21]

Ten minutes is an awfully long time. Without a clock to hand, many people will seriously overestimate the time if it were not a good experience. I suspect a couple of minutes (which is still a long time) is more likely but obviously only those there that day can say for definite.

 

[HowardGWR]

Have you never been on the tube in rush hour then? That sounded like what probably would happen!

I was only complaining about use of language on here (have reported those emails) - but the answer is yes, every day for years, but that was in the '60s. We just stood, crammed, and put up with the crush. People did not delay trains (Bakerloo, Waterloo to Paddington 0815, now that was a crush, a dangerous one at the foot of the escalators, just to get onto the platform) but realised that the quicker the doors closed, the quicker another one behind could arrive.

As a footnote, I don't know whether matters have improved, but on 7/7 anniversary, I always have wondered why the bombers only picked one very effective target (from their point of view). The example I give above would have been a much more effective choice. All four bombers together could have killed hundreds, had they studied the options more. What would prevent that now? All this fuss at airports (and Eurotunnel) and no checks at stations - I don't understand the logic used at all.

Need another thread for that issue I suppose.