Originally Posted by
bocastephen
True, but I personally feel it's not my place as a foreigner to be the busy body enforcing JR's new rules that from my observation last week, 95% of people are ignoring. I would just feel strange and uncomfortable doing so. With the temperature in Shinagawa Station feeling about 120, I was perfectly happy to stand on the left and move as little as possible.
Nailed it.
When I was there, I saw NO ONE standing side by side 100% of the time. I also saw no accidents either.
I read that one of the rules they want enforced also is to have a step between the next person. Well, no one really did that either.
To add to that, if folks change and keep a step in-between yet stand side by side when they didn't previously, you aren't getting more people on the escalator.
I understand this was about safety but someone mentioned more people being transported.
Eh