Saturday, June 16, 2012

The gap is too big?

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Enough of the frequent breakdowns that seem even more irritating than saving the Debtocratic Republic of Grease, the Slow, Mediocre and Recylced Trains (SMaRT) of Lion State have yet another problem to deal with recently.

Not too long ago, a woman who was boarding a train lost her footing and fell into the platform gap. Do not be mistaken, only one of her legs and the hands of a courageous stranger ended up inside. Since then, commuters, who find every possible way to attack SMaRT nowadays, have called for gaps to be narrowed.

Previous reports have claimed that platform gaps at train stations were as broad as 10cm, not very wide at all as long as you are not a slave to your smartphone whenever you take public transport. It is understandable that gaps are essential to accommodate vehicle movement.

Communication is what I believe to be the fundamental problem to this issue. Announcements in trains as well as train stations should be broadcasted in a variety of languages in order to benefit travelers. That is because the honorary leader of Lion State, Shadow Elder Lee, loves importing foreign talents.

Besides the four main languages spoken by four smooth-spoken women, languages of foreigners living here and maybe fluent male speakers like myself should be added. However, announcements would have to begin as early as four minutes before the train arrives.

The new list of languages that should be added are Mandarin spoken with a distinctive (or annoying) accent, regional languages of India like Angika, Bengali, Chhattisgarhi etc., Tagalog, Burmese and last but not least, Vietnamese.

SMaRT should also ban smartphone slavesusers from stroking their devices' screens when they are going into or out of a train.

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