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in new delhi, india, metro is "actually amazing".... you have mandatory baggage x-ray checking and a physcial patdown, both for men and women EVERYTIME you ent

in new delhi, india, metro is "actually amazing".... you have mandatory baggage x-ray checking and a physcial patdown, both for men and women EVERYTIME you enter the station so you cant have weapons of any sort. the stations are guarded by trained police (cisf) whole job profile is to only secure highly sensitive operations and they are trained to actually do their job.... you have full CCTV coverage of stations and trains and it is generally safe. for women, the first carriage of every train is mandatory for women only and any men who board that carriage are fined and removed from the train... you cannot eat or even "sit on the floor of the train" so its very clean even when many thousand passengers ride it every single day... tickets are enforced so you cannot just freeride the stations and cars. you need a card/ticket to enter and exit and are charged by the time between these two entries so there aren't panhandlers, beggars there... india has a generally dirty habit of doing chewing tobacco and the city stinks with the stink of red stains on every building, wall, road, vehicles but spitting is an offense in the station/train permises so its also clean by that way. if you are in india and in delhi, try it once. you will enjoy the ride

dvfjsdhgfv 4y ago
I've just had a look at the pictures: https://www.livemint.com/news/india/delhi-metro-average-waiting-time-at-this-station-is-25-minutes-11623383503893.html https://www.livemint.com/news/india/delhi-metro-average-wait... It looks very nice, even nicer than in some European cities.
stjohnswarts 4y ago
I don't have an issue with tougher policing of the fare with actual doors and police presence but a patdown is kind of ridiculous. I'm afraid people too easily give up their freedom for a tiny increase in safety
- 2Gkashmiri 4y ago
  nope. a patdown to prevent any concealed weapons is a good thing.... may i ask, what kind of freedoms do you loose if you are 100% sure that in a train station or in a train that no one is carrying a knife or a gun or something lethal? >tiny increase in safety yeah, right... guns don't kill people, it is people who kill people. same for cigarettes i suppose.
  - codyb 4y ago
    I dunno, that seems like a lot to me living in NYC where we have basically none of that and life is fine. We all get on the train and go our ways and peak ridership is millions a day (prepandemic was almost 6 million on the MTA trains alone (not including the LIRR, Metro North, and NJ Transit, and Amtrak)). I don't think anyone in NYC wants that. Talk about a police presence sheesh. And yea I just talked about the perception issues, which is why they're cracking down on fare evaders. Basically increasing police presence to make people feel like it's the safe system they've been using for years before the pandemic.
    - 2Gkashmiri 4y ago
      NYC subway is said to be stinky, with homeless people and people dying and such, people throwing fights and stuff... >And yea I just talked about the perception issues, which is why they're cracking down on fare evaders. why should that not be a problem when they are running a public utility? oh, did i mention that women just have to carry an empty "card" with no balance and they can "actually freeride" the whole train for as long as they want ? so only men have to pay for their rides and everyone is happy with the arrangement in delhi so why should they NOT enforce men not paying?

dvfjsdhgfv 4y ago

I've just had a look at the pictures: https://www.livemint.com/news/india/delhi-metro-average-waiting-time-at-this-station-is-25-minutes-11623383503893.html https://www.livemint.com/news/india/delhi-metro-average-wait... It looks very nice, even nicer than in some European cities.

stjohnswarts 4y ago

I don't have an issue with tougher policing of the fare with actual doors and police presence but a patdown is kind of ridiculous. I'm afraid people too easily give up their freedom for a tiny increase in safety

2Gkashmiri 4y ago
nope. a patdown to prevent any concealed weapons is a good thing.... may i ask, what kind of freedoms do you loose if you are 100% sure that in a train station or in a train that no one is carrying a knife or a gun or something lethal? >tiny increase in safety yeah, right... guns don't kill people, it is people who kill people. same for cigarettes i suppose.
- codyb 4y ago
  I dunno, that seems like a lot to me living in NYC where we have basically none of that and life is fine. We all get on the train and go our ways and peak ridership is millions a day (prepandemic was almost 6 million on the MTA trains alone (not including the LIRR, Metro North, and NJ Transit, and Amtrak)). I don't think anyone in NYC wants that. Talk about a police presence sheesh. And yea I just talked about the perception issues, which is why they're cracking down on fare evaders. Basically increasing police presence to make people feel like it's the safe system they've been using for years before the pandemic.
  - 2Gkashmiri 4y ago
    NYC subway is said to be stinky, with homeless people and people dying and such, people throwing fights and stuff... >And yea I just talked about the perception issues, which is why they're cracking down on fare evaders. why should that not be a problem when they are running a public utility? oh, did i mention that women just have to carry an empty "card" with no balance and they can "actually freeride" the whole train for as long as they want ? so only men have to pay for their rides and everyone is happy with the arrangement in delhi so why should they NOT enforce men not paying?