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Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

A little amused by this reaction video by Indonesians because I didn't think this was such an extraordinary thing 😅. But yes, most of the time Malaysians do queue up properly for the Lrt. I am not sure why. It sure if wasnt like that in the past. I was using minibuses back in the day and we weren't that civilized 😅

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@liztai@hachyderm.io the most amusing thing to me is, this wasn't the case when I was small. Public transportation is the major/primary way for me to move around for the majority of my life and I totally could see the gradual shift towards these better behaviours such as queueing, even the practice of standing on the left side of the escalator and making room for people who'd like to climb on the right - despite this not actually being enforced at all. I'd like to know how this happened but I'm glad it's more and more of a norm now.

@irfan ikr. I swear getting into busses were hella stressful 🤣

@irfan Agree here, I used to go to Taiwan and was amazed that people queue up for trains there. Then we ourselves eventually started doing that too.
@liztai

@rakyat@hachyderm.io @liztai@hachyderm.io that was my exact reaction, except it was when I last went to Tokyo maybe sometime in ~2012-2013. I learned about these behaviours for the first time, and all of a sudden started seeing them being done here slowly until eventually it started becoming a norm.

I've never seen them enforced tho, so there will be cases where you'd see people not doing it, esp in a mostly empty escalator (in the case of the left-right escalator thing), but more often than not people practice it regardless. My only conclusion is that people must've learned n picked it up on their travels elsewhere, and others just followed suit.

@irfan @liztai Dweller from the other side here, only commenting on Jabodetabek region since it's the one I'm most familiar with, but here it took them deploying the Marines and getting rid of paper tickets to finally get people to behave :akkoderp:

I'd say that the situation is so much better compared to the pre-2011 "dark ages", but still many improvements could be made (at least physically; a lot of the station infrastructure dates back to the Dutch era and haven't been properly upgraded to work well with modern rapid transit-style operation they are being subjected to... see, for example, the hillariously narrow platforms of Tanah Abang station, you can't queue properly even if you want to!)

But yeah, work is being done and overall I feel cautiously optimistic, despite the occassional drama, haha

@koakuma Ok, deploying the marines?? Hard core, man.

But I don't understand how getting rid of paper tickets got them to behave 😅

@irfan

@liztai @irfan Ah, yeah, I guess this one needs a little extra context

Back in the paper ticket era, whoever is it on ticket check duty often gets bullied by the passengers into looking the other way, so to say~ part of the reason for electronic gates is to get rid of those issues, along with getting people to be more orderly and pay for their tickets (cus now your opponent is a big chunk of iron, bwahaha)

And this ties to the deployment of Marines; during the early days of electronic ticketing, violent fights and protests are rather common so they ended up calling the big guys in to help take care of station security~