{"id":447,"date":"2011-05-16T13:04:12","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T17:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scripts.mit.edu\/~zong\/wpress\/?p=447"},"modified":"2011-07-07T11:02:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T15:02:56","slug":"subway-oddity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/?p=447","title":{"rendered":"subway oddity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/images\/3736606417_a8d6963aa2.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3469\/3736606417_a8d6963aa2.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=5 vspace=5 \/>MBTA has these &#8220;BIG RED&#8221; high-capacity cars now, but guess what? <a href=\"http:\/\/bostonist.com\/2008\/12\/04\/big_red_mbta_plays_metro_matchmaker.php\">All they did was to remove all the seats.<\/a> The trouble is, this form of so-called &#8220;high capacity&#8221; doesn&#8217;t actually add much capacity. You still have to hold on to these loops or bars and there are only so many of them. The trains <em>look<\/em> more spacious though&#8230; I think they&#8217;re confusing high personal space with high capacity.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/images\/boston-subway-81.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.boston-discovery-guide.com\/image-files\/boston-subway-8.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=5 vspace=5 \/> (Why do &#8220;suit&#8221; and &#8220;purple&#8221; choose to stand?)<\/p>\n<p>There is a better way to add capacity and reduce crowding in the subway car, however. Make the damned seats wider! What people do right now &#8212; due to some kind of human repelling force &#8212; is to skip every other seat unless the situation is really saturated, because it&#8217;s impolite and uncomfortable to squeeze next to\/in between people. So MBTA ends up with half the designed seating capacity and the overflow just stand, sometimes right next to\/blocking an empty seat. Just remove one seat per row and the number of seated people may increase dramatically. This applies to classrooms and other contexts, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MBTA has these &#8220;BIG RED&#8221; high-capacity cars now, but guess what? All they did was to remove all the seats. The trouble is, this form of so-called &#8220;high capacity&#8221; doesn&#8217;t actually add much capacity. You still have to hold on to these loops or bars and there are only so many of them. The trains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1752,2061,2059,1072,2047,2046,2060,1839],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-car","tag-contexts","tag-empty-seat","tag-kind","tag-mbta","tag-oddity","tag-overflow","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}