{"id":2116,"date":"2009-02-17T01:28:53","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T06:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2009\/02\/17\/do-montrealers-behave-badly-on-transit\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:02:55","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:02:55","slug":"do-montrealers-behave-badly-on-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/02\/17\/do-montrealers-behave-badly-on-transit\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Montrealers behave badly on transit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/christopherdewolf\/309253912\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/119\/309253912_5e7d8e92a1.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s transit-complaints column in the Gazette investigates whether or not Montrealers are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/story_print.html?id=1294009\">exceptionally rude when they use public transit<\/a>. Two transit users write in to moan about how people on commuter trains, metros and buses never give up their seats to pregnant women and how many of them insist on wearing their backpacks (rather than taking them off and setting them on the floor) even when it&#8217;s crowded. In response, the Gazette turns to two sociologists who say that yes, Montrealers lack transit etiquette and that they ought to be a lot more considerate than they are. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to argue with that point: like any regular transit user, I get frustrated with people who stand on the left of the metro escalator when others are trying to walk up and who insist on crowding the front of the bus when the back is nearly empty. But these problems are not unique to Montreal; in fact, they&#8217;re endemic to transit systems around the world. Last summer, I moved to Hong Kong, a public transport paradise with buses, minibuses, ferries, trams, light rail and a metro. Virtually everyone here uses some form of transit in their everyday life but, strangely enough, there is very little in the way of public transit etiquette. In the metro, people stand in front of the doors when you&#8217;re trying to get off; there&#8217;s always someone blocking the escalators, oblivious to the line of people waiting to get past them (but who are, in a quirk of Hong Kong culture, too timid to ask them to move to the side).<\/p>\n<p>The sociologists quoted in the Gazette blame Montreal&#8217;s &#8220;individualist&#8221; culture for the lack of civility on public transit. But, as <a href=\"http:\/\/w5.montreal.com\/mtlweblog\/2009\/02\/money-for-amt-solutions-for-pie-ix.html\">Kate McDonnell points out<\/a> at Montreal City, our transit behaviour might not be rudeness, just indifference: &#8220;Most of us cope with the stress of crowded buses by zoning out in one way or another.&#8221; Can you really blame them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s transit-complaints column in the Gazette investigates whether or not Montrealers are exceptionally rude when they use public transit. 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