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Re:Apology after Japanese train departs 20 seconds early by agumonkey on Thursday November 16, 2017 @01:40PM (#15715273)
It's "funny" but in my area, people often block doors to let a bit more people jump in, disrupting the schedule in the other way.

What structure would help preventing this ?

doors set to stop people too far from trying to get in ?

Re:Apology after Japanese train departs 20 seconds early by bootlooped on Thursday November 16, 2017 @07:21PM (#15717962)
One idea would be a sort of controlled-access staging area before the train that would admit roughly the capacity of the next arriving train. The doors to the staging area close as the train is arriving or the staging area is full, and the doors to the train don't open until the doors to the staging area area confirmed closed. It doesn't stop people from holding open those doors, but I think having 2 layers would help. That said constructing such a system in existing systems seems really improbable. You would have to build it in from the beginning.
Re:Apology after Japanese train departs 20 seconds early by agumonkey on Friday November 17, 2017 @06:38AM (#15721158)
fair point
Re:Apology after Japanese train departs 20 seconds early by krallja on Thursday November 16, 2017 @01:50PM (#15715348)
Tokyo famously has employees in white gloves who will push stragglers onto subway cars during rush hours.