At the moment, weekday ridership for the Red Line is about 35,000, compared with more than one million on the city's overcrowded buses.
Her companion took the car smartly between two overcrowded buses, to emerge calm and unscathed on the other side.
Occasionally there are jokes about food lines and overcrowded buses.
Passengers on insanely overcrowded buses don't become impatient.
Though it was good value, with an indoor pool, our stay was marred by the horribly overcrowded buses to and from the parks.
At least 52 people including five children are killed after an overcrowded bus plunges down a deep gorge in Indian Kashmir.
On 28 January 2009, a woman died after falling from an overcrowded bus in movement.
In between, riders tried to figure out which subway lines were operating and often found themselves running for overcrowded buses.
When asked about problems, many survey takers complained about overcrowded buses.
At the other end, while taking the public transport system, I'm surrounded by miserable faces in overcrowded buses and trains.