Are train pushers still a thing?

[Samurai_Jerk]

It just occurred to me I haven't seen an oshiya cramming people onto the trains in Tokyo in years. Admittedly I don't take the rush hour train too often but are they even still a thing?

[Taro Toporific]

It just occurred to me I haven't seen an oshiya cramming people onto the trains in Tokyo in years. Admittedly I don't take the rush hour train too often but are they even still a thing?

The Chuo Line in Tokyo station still has full-blown oshiya /people pushers at peak periods (the oshiya kind of freak out when handicapped guy on crutches like me ASKS help to be pushed in.
As a practical matter, most oshiya just cram in the just last bits of people hanging out rather than the extreme version of pushing lines of three people deep into the train.

Prior Art: New York was the first to have people pushers for trains in 1918.

[Yokohammer]

Didn't Steppenwolf (the band, not the novel by Hesse) write a song about those guys?

[Taro Toporific]

Didn't Steppenwolf (the band, not the novel by Hesse) write a song about those guys?

Yeah but Curtis Mayfield mo' betta.

Steppenwolf - The Pusher
https://youtu.be/3XqyGoE2Q4Y

[Yokohammer]

Forgot about that one!

Like 'em both. The Steppenwolf one really takes me back ... written by Hoyt Axton and made famous by the movie "Easy Rider" in 1969 (although the song had been around for a while before the movie). Mayfield's "Pusherman" came a bit later (1972).

Found a toob of John Kay (the Steppenwolf guy) performing their version in 2000.

[Takechanpoo]

recently "return urban centre" movement have been being seen in greater tokyo area.
ppl and universities, who settled down the suburban area in 1970-80, has started abandoning their properties located in suburban area of tokyo and migrated to the urban centre.
another train pushers will be needed.

[Coligny]

Didn't Steppenwolf (the band, not the novel by Hesse) write a song about those guys?

audi-steppenwolf-concept-2000-16.jpg

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