I always find it odd that some stations, like Westminster and London Bridge, a formal que forms for the tubes. And other it is a free for all. Both are accepted as the unwritten rule depending on the station and widely obeyed.
Peak British culture we don’t just queue we queue *for the* somehow enjoy it more than the destination.
Nah I just go straight to the front, ridiculous. Not having this.
Brits will literally queue for a queue. Peak London behaviour. Love to see it.
Woe betide he who besmirches the sanctity of the sacred queue.
Do not queue in pubs people! There are a few exceptions and pubs are one of them, for centuries until COVID came along and people decided that queuing in a single file in a usually narrow space with a long bar is the logical thing to do now…
Canary Wharf station?
Probably the last good thing left in British culture. Even the bad eggs queue religiously.
Crazy. Brompton bike should advertise on the tube & so should London Cycling Campaign *(cycling [safety] charity and advocacy group].*
*I bet there are a lot of people that could bike part of the journey from a hub station and have a nicer time, especially if the route is on protected lanes. Many people think busy London traffic means more risk but in my experience, it’s the opposite. Speeds slow down and critical mass of cyclists and pedestrians mean motorists are generally taking less risk (speeding, lack of observation) in Zones 1 & 3 than they do in Zone 4+.*
I suspect that the much smaller and restricted space on most – particularly well established, central London – tube stations precludes the formation of queues… The platforms are far too narrow. Whereas at tube stations like Canary Wharf the much bigger and far less restricted space in the platforms positively enable order and queuing among passengers.
I used to work in Canary Wharf 2009-2010. I loved the queues. This is a nostalgic post for me 🥰
We were talking with my gf, who is also an immigrant, that how much we love “The Queue” compared to the chaos of our respective countries
This might be made fun og by some but after decades of third world public transportation, this is peak behaviour
Is this pre covid? I worked in Canary Wharf until 2022, and the post covid queueing situation was a shit show. Would be awesome to hear if it’s gone back to the hyper efficiency of pre 2020
This looks like AI
Canary Wharf!
Corporate London is so civilised
My love . Canary Wharf!
I’m going to start a fast track Lane £1 to miss the queue.
Kudos to commuters. They are hustlers. Tourists fuck around. Try the stations around Kensington. Some don’t even stand on the right 🤦♂️
Same in pubs and bars. Before Covid you used to just all stand at the bar and hope you’d be next but now everywhere people just form a big line, which is fairer I suppose.
Does anyone actually love a queue? Are you joining queues for the thrill, not knowing what’s at the end?
I swear Reddit is trying gaslight me into thinking this is national personality trait, and it’s just stupid. No one is queuing as a hobby, as Reddit would have you believe.
If I can help it, I try to get on the tube before or after rush hour.
But I don’t have kids nor usually anything time sensitive waiting on me – so easy enough for me, though it’s not an available option for everyone.
I love the Jubilee line for this. However, at rush hour a lot of people try to push in or join from the side.
I just moved to a new office in Canary Wharf last week, previously being in Paddington. Didn’t know Londoners had this level of etiquette.
I was on a Lufthansa flight from Munich to Berlin recently, and it was the antithesis to this. Not to generalize Germans, but they do not love a queue..
Keep calm and carry on
Oh god why are you showing me this i just got home and escaped this madness.
What beautiful queuing, am feeling emotional , dabbling my eyes sniff
Love working from home 🏡
I often wonder if we’ve been conditioned to think we ‘love a good queue ‘ to make us proud to accept using terribly run services.
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I always find it odd that some stations, like Westminster and London Bridge, a formal que forms for the tubes. And other it is a free for all. Both are accepted as the unwritten rule depending on the station and widely obeyed.
Peak British culture we don’t just queue we queue *for the* somehow enjoy it more than the destination.
Nah I just go straight to the front, ridiculous. Not having this.
Brits will literally queue for a queue. Peak London behaviour. Love to see it.
Woe betide he who besmirches the sanctity of the sacred queue.
Do not queue in pubs people! There are a few exceptions and pubs are one of them, for centuries until COVID came along and people decided that queuing in a single file in a usually narrow space with a long bar is the logical thing to do now…
Canary Wharf station?
Probably the last good thing left in British culture. Even the bad eggs queue religiously.
Crazy. Brompton bike should advertise on the tube & so should London Cycling Campaign *(cycling [safety] charity and advocacy group].*
*I bet there are a lot of people that could bike part of the journey from a hub station and have a nicer time, especially if the route is on protected lanes. Many people think busy London traffic means more risk but in my experience, it’s the opposite. Speeds slow down and critical mass of cyclists and pedestrians mean motorists are generally taking less risk (speeding, lack of observation) in Zones 1 & 3 than they do in Zone 4+.*
I suspect that the much smaller and restricted space on most – particularly well established, central London – tube stations precludes the formation of queues… The platforms are far too narrow. Whereas at tube stations like Canary Wharf the much bigger and far less restricted space in the platforms positively enable order and queuing among passengers.
I used to work in Canary Wharf 2009-2010. I loved the queues. This is a nostalgic post for me 🥰
We were talking with my gf, who is also an immigrant, that how much we love “The Queue” compared to the chaos of our respective countries
This might be made fun og by some but after decades of third world public transportation, this is peak behaviour
Is this pre covid? I worked in Canary Wharf until 2022, and the post covid queueing situation was a shit show. Would be awesome to hear if it’s gone back to the hyper efficiency of pre 2020
This looks like AI
Canary Wharf!
Corporate London is so civilised
My love . Canary Wharf!
I’m going to start a fast track Lane £1 to miss the queue.
Kudos to commuters. They are hustlers. Tourists fuck around. Try the stations around Kensington. Some don’t even stand on the right 🤦♂️
Same in pubs and bars. Before Covid you used to just all stand at the bar and hope you’d be next but now everywhere people just form a big line, which is fairer I suppose.
https://i.redd.it/v22o9c4u1u1g1.gif
If only we had this in zone 3 and 4….💔
Does anyone actually love a queue? Are you joining queues for the thrill, not knowing what’s at the end?
I swear Reddit is trying gaslight me into thinking this is national personality trait, and it’s just stupid. No one is queuing as a hobby, as Reddit would have you believe.
If I can help it, I try to get on the tube before or after rush hour.
But I don’t have kids nor usually anything time sensitive waiting on me – so easy enough for me, though it’s not an available option for everyone.
I love the Jubilee line for this. However, at rush hour a lot of people try to push in or join from the side.
I just moved to a new office in Canary Wharf last week, previously being in Paddington. Didn’t know Londoners had this level of etiquette.
I was on a Lufthansa flight from Munich to Berlin recently, and it was the antithesis to this. Not to generalize Germans, but they do not love a queue..
Keep calm and carry on
Oh god why are you showing me this i just got home and escaped this madness.
What beautiful queuing, am feeling emotional , dabbling my eyes sniff
Love working from home 🏡
I often wonder if we’ve been conditioned to think we ‘love a good queue ‘ to make us proud to accept using terribly run services.
Since when did London become so orderly?
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