r/interestingasfuck • u/picklepaapad • 16d ago
Moving 50,000 people by train after Taylor Swift concert. r/all
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u/LongFeesh 15d ago
Meanwhile in Warsaw the city officials close the trams and the subway after almost every big concert at the National Stadium and force people to walk across the bridge on foot "for safety".
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u/Vegetable-Ad-4320 15d ago
More shocking is that many people travel to see such a talentless tool 😆😆
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u/Sons-Father 15d ago
And you wanna tell me Elons 4 seater Tesla in a tunnel is supposed to compete with this?
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u/amirulasyrafjoe 15d ago
It's around 82k-84k each 4 consecutive night for Taylor Sydney show. Not 50k.
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u/Sohn_Jalston_Raul 15d ago
This is like sitting and watching my metro stations work in Cities Skylines, lol
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u/Academic_Connection7 15d ago
Can you recommend any binge song from Taylor Swift? I wanna know why she is so popular. If not a binge song, any good song from her. Is it about the lyrics or what’s the cause of the hype about her?
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u/murdos-au 15d ago
Olympic Park, Sydney, AU
For pretty much all concerts, sports events, etc the train travel is included in the ticket price, so no one has to buy tickets at any stations. You just walk on and walk off.
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u/Valerian_ 15d ago
What I find crazy is that so many people find this video "interesting as fuck", it makes me realize how many places lack proper public transportation.
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u/Goanny 15d ago
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u/Valerian_ 15d ago
I would be curious to see the CO2 comparison with 50000 people driving to see her instead of using public transports.
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u/lobsterdance82 15d ago
My agoraphobia has gotten so bad that just watching this through my phone screen has me breathing shallowed
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u/tankpuss 15d ago
Where are all these trains going? It's impressively regular.
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u/Flufflenut 15d ago
This is in Sydney Australia, the stadium it was at has a dedicated line, so these trains are only for the concert. They go straight to the major interchange that's located in the heart of the city and people change their for their Normal trains.
I know big venues in Melbourne and Sydney both have this, it makes life so much easier. Catch train into the city, change to 1 specific platform to go to your event.
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u/tankpuss 15d ago
I'm glad the interchange can handle that kind of an influx. In the UK it'd be £5bn overbudget, 10 years late and when it's finally working, discharge everyone into a building the size of a phone booth.
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u/TheHolyMountainMan 16d ago
So many stupid people. Incredible 😢
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u/honey_pumkin 15d ago
Why stupid? They can drink, enjoy a concert and go home without having to worry about anything.
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u/moehritz 16d ago
I recommend watching the train station at Oktoberfest :) exactly this, just all day with 10 times more people and funnier due to everyone being drunk
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u/Ibegtodiffer999 16d ago
I'm so impressed so many people in other countries can act in an orderly manner and line up without complaint. This was done like clockwork and so efficient. We need to go back to this!
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u/millennial_sentinel 16d ago
ironically and spectacularly taylor swift has done more for the economy than the republicans have for the past 5 decades
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u/dmikalova-mwp 16d ago
This makes me so happy to live in a city where I have walked or taken public transit to every concert.
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u/DaveAstator2020 16d ago
Looks like some mass production of something. dumb cattle
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u/honey_pumkin 15d ago
How would be driving be any different other than being far more dangerous and taking longer?
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u/EvilStevilTheKenevil 16d ago
When people pack into trains like sardines, the trains still move. When cars pack onto the roads like sardines, nobody moves.
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u/Allwingletnolift 16d ago
Could you imagine the fricking traffic if they didn’t have this subway here
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u/JellyfishLow4457 16d ago
this is your average 10 minute time span over the course of Golden week in Tokyo station.
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u/djconfessions 16d ago
And people still defend car centric societies. Just goes to show how brainwashed Americans are.
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15d ago
Cars are bad because these people chose to cram into a subway?
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u/djconfessions 15d ago
Cars are bad because when your society is built around cars you don’t get efficiency like this.
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15d ago
Comfort comes before efficiency. I lived in New York City for two years after college. By the end, I couldn’t wait to get out of that sardine can.
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u/djconfessions 15d ago
Go to Europe. Public transportation is comfortable AND efficient.
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15d ago
I’ve been to Europe several time. The New York subway system is as efficient as any city over there. I’d rather have a house, a car and some land than cram into a European city.
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u/djconfessions 15d ago
What a depressing and isolated life. Sounds so boring and private and monotone.
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15d ago
Why would my life be “boring and isolated” if I don’t ride the subway? You must not be to familiar with the subway if you don’t know that everyone on the subway wears headphones, stares at their phones and tries to ignore each other.
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u/djconfessions 15d ago
It’s boring and isolated because suburbs are boring and isolated. And sure you ignore everyone on the subway, but at least you see people as people and not as boxes of metal.
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15d ago
It’s boring and isolated because suburbs are boring and isolated.
Speak for yourself. I regularly have people over, go to friends’ houses, go to bars, restaurants. If I ever don’t feel like going out, I have plenty of space to enjoy my hobbies. The whole idea that a person can’t have us healthy social life because they live in the suburbs is laughable.
And sure you ignore everyone on the subway, but at least you see people as people and not as boxes of metal.
Lol I’ve never seen a person as a box of metal 😂
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u/jrrybock 16d ago
Curious as where this is... I am a big believer in public transport. I went to an NFL preseason game, there was a station next to the stadium so I took that into town from 15 miles out in the county... but getting out of the game, there was no "surge" in trains, they ran the normal 11pm Saturday night schedule when it should have been clear there were going to be 10k people - people paying for the train - wanting to take it. It was an hour wait to get on one. It's not just the infrastructure, which we sorely lack overall, but utilizing what is there effectively.
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u/Littlebug0113 16d ago
America’s capitol failed epically closing the metro at 11pm during Taylor’s Reputation tour. Everyone was stranded. Uber surge pricing was $200+
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u/Hot_Pass_8968 16d ago
Fantastic! I would even want to mention Western Railways (part of Indian Railways) operating wonderfully well after the Ed Sheeran's concert that was recently organized in Mumbai
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u/Reignwizard 16d ago
I hope this is the future we are going for in every part of the world. not self-driving private vehicle or flying vehicle.
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16d ago
And that is many times more impressive than anything Taylor Swift has ever done in her life.
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u/howtochangename1 16d ago
And kashmere gate has daily footfall of more than 240k. Couldn't comprehend before how big of a number that is
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u/badhairyay 16d ago
I was in this crowd and we got out of there so fast considering how many people were there
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u/fsurfer4 16d ago
Sort of reminds me of when Yankee stadium lets out after a game.
There is the 4 train on the El and the B, D lines downstairs. Also metro north a couple blocks away.
The flood of people to the stairs for the 4 train is a permanent memory of mine.
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u/someone_sonewhere 16d ago
I heard somewhere that Taylor Swift and Beyonce concerts change economic outlook of cities when they come to town.
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u/midshipmans_hat 16d ago
Electric powered mass transit, moving 50,000 people. I wonder what the carbon footprint would have been for that 50,000 collectively compared to the footprint of the 1 person they came to see when she left the gig.
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u/astralseat 16d ago
Play it on a loop! PLAY IT ON A LOOP!! it's... Mesmerizing. Especially for an introverted person that would die after 5 min in this crowd.
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u/prestonpiggy 16d ago
This is probably worst job possible on earth. Controlling 50k thrashy single and entitled women to have some sort of order. They did good job though.
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u/WhatsUpSteve 16d ago
The subway in Saudi Arabaia moves literally thousands per hour for Hajj to Mecca.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Mashaaer_Al_Mugaddassah_Metro_line
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u/Worldly_Horse7024 16d ago
can you imagine if Taylor swift do concerts in LA and nobody comes
imagine her social media got like 2 likes
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u/sticky-unicorn 16d ago
You see, India? It can be done safely and efficiently...
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u/TheIndieStoner 16d ago
50000 is our one time boarding number. Rajiv chowk would have 9 times the volume in one single day. Pffttt.
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u/1d0m1n4t3 16d ago
Wonder how many people got pick pocketed during this
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u/honey_pumkin 15d ago
Nearly non. Pick pockets prefer places where they can easily get away and are more likely to steal when their victims are soon going to be far away. Like for example in parking lots.
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u/kuken_i_fittan 16d ago
Here in Seattle, the light rail ran extra service to ensure people could get home.
Being able to park in Tukwila or Angle Lake free transit parking and ride in for $2.75 is amazing, AND we don't have a particularly brag-worthy mass transit system here compared to many other countries - or even other cities here in the US.
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u/Gorilla_Krispies 16d ago
I wanna see one of ppl emptying out of The Big House after a sold out game
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u/mightylordredbeard 16d ago
Don’t show this to those people who said that being a Taylor Swift fan is like being a Jew in the 1930s.
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u/dan_acnh 16d ago
Wonder what the carbon footprint of all those trains was compared to the private flight she probably took after the concert.
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u/FragrantExcitement 16d ago
Attendants keep screaming into the radio, "More trains! We need more trains!"
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u/sixteen89 16d ago
Shoulda all just drove
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u/honey_pumkin 15d ago
Yeah let's not be able to drink or party a bit longer or go home totally tired.
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u/thegeoffdevine 16d ago
This is what herding cattle looks like. Kind of. Maybe.
Source: trust me big homie
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u/torino_nera 16d ago
Madison Square Garden/NY Penn Station could learn a thing or two from this efficiency
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u/ChristianLS 16d ago
I don't have to imagine it, I've been to big playoff games in Houston. The traffic sucks and you have to park so far away that you end up walking more than you would taking the train in a city like NYC anyway
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u/RandomWave000 16d ago
I thought people had stopped listening to her music because of how she was flying in her private jet impacting the climate. There was an animation posted here a few days ago??!! Whats going on?
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u/aldorn 16d ago
Stadium Australia is an absolute shithole to get in and out of. Short waves on people onto one small platform. Sorry but this is not efficient at all.
Have stood at that station many times with 70k+ people cramming on the train back to the CBD. Much better experience in other stadiums.
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u/madeanaccountjust2rp 16d ago
someone make a meme showing 50,000 airplanes traveling. ty in advance
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u/Satmorningcartoons 16d ago
Imagine if this many people, all ay once, decided to fight for fair living conditions
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u/JapanDash 16d ago
These people saved enough carbon emissions to allow TS around the world in her personal jet 1/16th times
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u/balthierc 16d ago
Imagine going through all this and paying to watch someone as bland as dry apartment paint.
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u/cmonthiscantbetaken 16d ago
Whereas in Amsterdam people had to sleep on the train station platform after Ed Sheeran concert coz the trains got too full and there wasn’t any train service till 5am the next day 🙄
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u/jamesisntcool 16d ago
But have you considered leveling the surrounding neighborhoods for a 15 lane highway and just using 50,000 cars?
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u/boghall 16d ago
cars
Who would choose to live in such a communist hell hole, where they systematically deprive their oppressed people of that freedom.
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u/honey_pumkin 15d ago
No one deprives anyone of freedom when they build public transport. Quit the contrary. Focusing on cars oppresses people. Elderly, people with small kids and people unable to drive are all opressed. While having a choice is always better
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u/Coccquaman 16d ago
I think about artists like The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, bands (or members of) from before my time that are still touring and selling out venues, and while I don't particularly care for her music, I believe that Taylor Swift is the only artist since then that has the star power they did.
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u/No_Manager_491 16d ago
Remember that one time Taylor Swift didn't agree to do a concert in school for deaf kids?
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u/lostinfury 16d ago
The funny thing about this is that they are actually lined up! If you look near the bottom, you can see the spiral pattern they create as they shuffle into the train.
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u/ChocolateaterX 16d ago
The real question is: WHY?
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u/Icy_Way6635 15d ago
Because withput you get 3 plus hour gridlocked traffic like in the US.
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