Japan is probably the most organized country in the world. It is remarkable the solutions japanese came up to organize a 12 milion-city. One of these, depicted here, are the lines on the floor of subway and train stations so that people await their turn to enter the trains. Not only do the trains stop at a specific distance, allowing the doors to milimetrically open on designated slots at the platform, but many times there are also double platforms at each side of the train so that people can exit on the opposite side and the new passengers can enter from the same side.
Other forms of organizing such a city is to have huge underground galleries (I'm talking 1 to 3
km!). This way people are not concentrated on the surface of main squares and do not need to cross the traffic lights. Even these are optimized, with state-employees sometimes counting how many people cross the street or how long is the traffic light on, in order to determine how long is it really necessary to have them on. Other solutions are the famous intersecting zebra-crossings at big squares or automatic change machines in the bus (the driver doesn't handle money, a machine does it for you by counting all the coins you insert at once). Hi-tech!
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