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Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

What's the most crowded train or bus you've been on? Where was it? Which line? What time? Etc.

huck · Joined: 19 Jan 2003

Subway, line 2, between the Seoulleung and Sadang....

It was so crowded on Friday evening that full trains went by twice before my line moved up enough for me to fit in....and then people kept getting on at all of the next stops as well...

earthbound14 · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Location: seoul

The Hammer · Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:46 am Post subject:

Line 1 every morning. Butts and crotches scrunched together for miles. Shocked

caniff · Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Location: All over the map

Since the OP didn't limit this to Korea, for me it was coming home from work one day on the green line in Boston from Government Center heading towards Kenmore Square (Fenway Park) where a big summer Red Sox/Yankees evening match-up was scheduled.

There were so many college kids that piled onto our car, obviously shi-faced, that critical mass was achieved. They started literally crowd-surfing some of their group around the car while screaming and generally acting like idiots. Although I was amused, I knew the conductor wasn't going to put up with these antics for long (the green line has trolley-like trains-being the oldest subway line in America-that go both above and below ground with conductors in each car, kind of like buses).

After a few stops with the pandemonium continuing, the conductor finally locked the doors and called the police. Boston's finest arrived and started pulling out and cuffing all the bozos to the cheers of the folks who just wanted to get home from work.

Good times.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

New Year's Eve 1999 on Line 2 going home from City Hall to Hongdae.

smilesalot · Joined: 24 Nov 2007

In Rome there was a 2 hour wait on the platform while I was there this January, and apparently the metro hadn't stopped running the whole day. I helped shove a nice American into the train because she was going to miss her plane. I, luckily, was not in a hurry, so I just waited until it was a little less crowded. Happy to report that I didn't have anything stolen from me!

Hanson · Joined: 20 Oct 2004

Two words and a number.

World Cup '02.

Ilsanman · Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Location: Bucheon, Korea

Pretty much every morning on the Line 1 from Bucheon.

Any line during rush hour.

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

The number 272 bus (blue) near Changyangri about 2 weeks ago. The driver just kept on picking people up and asking everybody to squeeze back. It seemed like he thought it was his duty to squeeze everybody in even if there's no space. But it's not like it's an infrequent bus. There's one every 2 minutes.

So, there's about 40,000 people on this bus. All wearing Winter coats....in a traffic jam....with heating cranked up full!!!! Unbearable. I stumbled off that bus 20 minutes later dripping with sweat and absolutely raging because it was all the bus drivers fault. He could have stopped picking up people when the bus was full and turned down the heating. I could have strangled him for starting my day off so badly.

Zyzyfer · Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 10:29 pm Post subject:

Saw a bus the other night with a dude at the front doors with his face practically shoved up against the glass. Not sure how they got the doors to even close on that bus�

Most of the Yeouido buses are sardine tins during the morning and evening rush hours.