Sqquiiiished 2

Just an update to the previous post. If you are thinking that the LRT is the most squished of all the public transport at peak hours. Well think again, because the monorail beats it all. Try waiting at Sungei Wang monorail station, and you will be amazed, as I was, that it takes 4 trains to pass by before I can actually get inside the monorail without squeezing and pushing even when a guard is standing at the entrance

Mind you this only happens between 6-7pm at the Sungei Wang monorail station. If you're wandering why I would be so amazed, that is because I never expect so many people to actually line up in their own vaguely defined vertical queues into the train entrance. I never thought the monorail would be so popular given the pricey ticket fare. RM1.20 from Hang Tuah to Bukit Bintang?? RIDICULOUS!!!

So, when it comes to queues defined by people at rush hour into a carriage which is barely even 50ft, the queues almost literally doesn't exist and all our uncivilized demeanour surfaces which really makes you compare us to the Neanderthals back in the Stone Age and testifies to a complete antithesis to our so-called modern day thinking and values.

Only when the 4th monorail came, did I manage to set foot into the air-conditioned metal cylinder a.k.a monorail, which was suppose to ferry people around town. Maybe the monorail should consider increasing their carriages. The squisshed factor was brought to an entirely new level here inside. Thank God for the air conds, if not all of us would be suffocated with the heat and humidity.

Luckily, i only have to bear the "squishness" for 2 stations. Even so, getting out was so difficult because there was practically body contact everywhere and moving around is like rubbing out onto other people's clothes and hands while forcing your way out as if trying to resist some powerful magnetic attraction.

Then there was some "ouches" and groans while trying to carve a path out of the monorail.

Thankfully I didn't have to seat because I wouldn't have to poison my view with all the asses staring at my eyes. (Ok this is a bit of exaggeration)

At eye level, it ain't much better safe for a few crevasses which allows one to look between all the hands and head to the outside world.

If there was any room for improvement for our monorails, I guess there should be more carriages. There should be more guard rails but then again, it's not like 1000s of people take them everyday. More room wouldn't fix it because if it wasn't that packed it would be spacious enough inside. And if it was fatter every station has to be modified to accommodate the extra space.

Is this the Beauty or Bane of Public Transport??