Madrid puts pushers in the subway to help make the trains go faster – Infobae.com

In Spain, the pushers are used not only in train stations, but also in concerts and football matches

construction Works that are carried out in metro de Madrid have led to the cutting of the line 8, so that to help to “make the trains go faster, people do not accumulate in a single door and not see a diminished frequency of the subway” has been added to a”booster”.

This kind of “pushers professionals” tend to act on the rush-hour between seven and nine in the morning and help people “walk along the platform and inside the carriages”.

station of Avenida de America, one of the most important of the Spanish capital, has the greatest flow of passengers of the country, so that it is not the first time they are used to this staff who have worked for big events like football matches and concerts.

The case of Spain is not the only place in the world where they act as “pushers”. In Tokyo, Japan, is very frequent the use of uniformed officers to help people come to the wagons.