COMMUTER SAYS NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE GIVING UP THEIR SEATS ON THE MRT

A netizen shared how he “observed” people in the MRT and saw more young and able-bodied people taking up the seats than the elderly.

Here is the story:

“I wanna make this confession but I really don’t want to stir any shit so please understand that what I say is based on my experience.

As someone on public transport for my whole life, I’ve been observing the people who are seated on the seats on trains and buses. I noticed something which kind of troubles me.

I did some sampling over half a year. Every time I took public transport at about 8 am, I would enter different parts of the trains and observe a particular section of seats.

Here are my observed statistics out of a total of 14 seats: (averaged over)

8.2 seats were taken by young and able-bodied.

3.6 seats were taken by elderly.

5.2 seats were taken by males.

These are just my data collection. Feel free to take your own, but I feel that as a society, we should look at letting people understand who we should give up the seats for. Thoughts?

For me… I just stand all the way. 16 stops only. Cheers.”

Editor’s note: They paid their fares, they are entitled to sit down. If you want a seat then take a taxi.