We all know about the sad escalator situation at a number of Link/Metro stations. We know that a good number of the citizens of this growing city are still but children when it comes to grasping the significance of the standard "walk left, stand right" law practiced in all mature cities. But we are also children in many other aspects of mass transportation. Here is one I saw the other day:

Three seats for one luggage bag. (The owner also took a seat—and so she claimed four on a train that was packed!) What is going on here? I don't think the bag's owner is a mean person. I think she simply doesn't understand how mass transit and public life works. She is like a child with a box of toys that must be shared with other children. The whole idea of sharing is not apparent to him/her. As the poor child is clueless about the toys, the poor luggage bag owner is clueless about transit trains—it's in fact not her car. This is a shared space. And in such a space, others must be factored into your decisions and movements. Years in automobiles have retarded our public intelligence. We now enter trains like a baby crawling on all fours.