.Urban Transportation

Swept along
by the crowd...

Although'pushers' (oshiya in Japanese) were employed on Japanese station platforms from the 1960s, they have now virtually disappeared, even though trains are typically packed to around 150% of their capacity. Journeys are still very long and it is common to see passengers whiling away the time reading, listening to their mp3 or tapping away on their laptops. Perhaps, as Jules Verne anticipated, our transportation systems have become symbols of modern life...