[MrX]

I have lived in London (recently) and would have to say that the commuter behaviour on board the London Underground and other systems is light years better than Dublin.

It's incrediable the way people over here just push onto the Luas making it almost impossible to get off. I've had incidents where people have refused to let me out of the Luas, just wouldn't move despite a lot of asking, tapping on the shoulders etc. Leaving me with no option except to be very pushy and squeeze my way off. There was still plenty of space up the coach they simply wouldn't get away from the door area.
My elderly grandmother was on the redline and swore she'd never use it again. She was trying to get off at Smithfield and ended up stuck on the tram the whole way to Connolly and walking back! She now won't use the trams at all unless they're relatively empty and prefers to use buses if it's busy.

And, while that particular incident mentioned above in London was bad. In general I find that Londoners will automatically give up a seat to an elderly person, disabled person or pregnant lady without having to be asked.

They also generally don't try and board a train / bus while other people are exiting.

Seems that no one has any cop on about use of public transport here anymore.

Both Luas and DART vechicles/platform automatic announcements need to be shouting "PLEASE ALLOW PASSENGERS TO LEAVE THE TRAIN BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO BOARD!!!"

As for heavily pregnant women using public transport. I was on a tube one afternoon and a lady boarded who was litterally in labour. We (some passengers and a London underground lady) had to pretty much lift her off, link her along to the escalators.. get her up onto street level and call an ambulance. She'd been attempting to get to the hospital by tube and her waters broke en route! Thankfully, there was an ambulance along within about 5 mins.