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Here's one straight out of Atlanta. This woman apparently forgot to stop by CVS to pick up her pills before she got on MARTA. I miss riding the MARTA system - I can assure you this type of behavior wasn't normal. The subtitles are funny even if they are wrong.

If you've ever wondered what the Paris Metro looks like during rush hour, check out the video below. It's in real time and is from Line 1 at the La Défense terminal. Trains arrive every minute and are completely packed.

Apparently everyday, 60,000 people use the metro line 1, 150,000 use the RER A, 60,000 use the transillien suburban train and 35,000 use the T2 light rail.

Here's an excerpt from a longer public broadcasting show about the building of the NYC subway system. One of the early questions was.... would they ride!

Yesterday we reported on a major accident on the Schwebebahn in Wuppertal, Germany. Today we have video from the scene courtesy of DerWesten. The video is in German but you can see the damage to the train carriage along with the passengers being removed via forklift - that's gotta be scary!

A former actor, now talent agent located in South Korea, MikeInKorea has posted hundreds of videos from Asia. Most of the videos are train related and really give you a sense of how subway travel works in other countries. While the trains in his videos rarely look brand new, they are so clean. The advertising is also handled differently than in the states.

Here's his video from today - a trip through a full subway train. I love the idea of no doors - the train carriages appear as wide as NYC subway cars but might even be a bit longer.

We tend to focus on trains, subways and general rail topics here on InsideTransit. Today I have a selection of bus pictures and videos all put together into a video with Beyonce in the background. All of the buses are found somewhere in NYC and damn are they almost all ugly as heck.

Ok, is this video real or fake? Shows a person riding a train in their backyard. The train and tracks seem quite long and big. I want to believe that it's real but it sure seems fake.

We've all seen it... a woman driving in her car sitting in traffic applies makeup, does her hair, tweezes her brows, etc. Men shave, clip their nails, apply Old Spice and trim their nose hair. But what happens when you are running late but don't have a car and take mass transit instead? That's easy, just use a subway car as your personal bathroom! Notice all of the passengers looking away!

Today's video comes out of South Korea. Here we see a man jumping into the tracks to commit suicide. For some reason he lies down in the middle of the tracks at the slow end of the platform. If he really wanted to die, he'd have done this as the train is entering the station and would have stood up, right? Maybe it was really a cry for help.

Luckily some quick thinking passengers jumped onto the tracks, picked the man up and got out of the way just as the train entered the station! What a heroic move. I've seen this type of move numerous times and it's awesome each and every time.

Sadly there are always people who think like this:

That was very greedy of the man jumping in frount of the train.If the train had killed him they would have to stop all the trains passing that station for hours and it would cause the train driver a huge amount of depresion and shock.

A couple of weeks ago, we posted some videos showing Japanese people pushing (and getting pushed) into subway cars. Today we have a new video from Brian Weinberg - this time from Penn Station in NYC. Here you can see 6 minutes of a massive amount of people attempting to reach the platform for a New Jersey transit train. I can't imagine all of these people made it on the train.