Makes sense, I’ve never been to Asia and I was only in Europe for a couple weeks, so the only European airport I saw was Heathrow, where I took the metro.
I’m not disagreeing that it’s safer to have a barrier, or saying that barriers aren’t a thing, just that it’s common enough not to have them to be used to it. I don’t think about that danger. I haven’t seen a space like that before, no.
I lived in Vancouver for almost a decade, where the trains are driverless and there aren’t walls or barriers, even at the airport.
But I did just learn what an automated people mover is, and some of them are adorable.
just that it’s common enough not to have them to be used to it
It’s the difference between public transit as a public service vs. public transit as a profit-making venture (in some places) or at least as public service being “run like a business” (more common in the west).
As soon as “business” is uttered in the management of something, you get to cost minimization and life-saving measures tend to cost money. They’re thus the first things cut unless forced otherwise by regulation.
Makes sense, I’ve never been to Asia and I was only in Europe for a couple weeks, so the only European airport I saw was Heathrow, where I took the metro.
I’m not disagreeing that it’s safer to have a barrier, or saying that barriers aren’t a thing, just that it’s common enough not to have them to be used to it. I don’t think about that danger. I haven’t seen a space like that before, no.
I lived in Vancouver for almost a decade, where the trains are driverless and there aren’t walls or barriers, even at the airport.
But I did just learn what an automated people mover is, and some of them are adorable.
It’s the difference between public transit as a public service vs. public transit as a profit-making venture (in some places) or at least as public service being “run like a business” (more common in the west).
As soon as “business” is uttered in the management of something, you get to cost minimization and life-saving measures tend to cost money. They’re thus the first things cut unless forced otherwise by regulation.
Yep. I agree. All I said was that it’s common, not that it’s correct.