| Urban Survival Tips And Advice: Know Your Urban Transport |
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 Pablo Edronkin
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Urban Survival Tips And Advice: Know Your Urban TransportIt is important and very advisable to get familiar with all emergency procedures for the event of some problem happening while you commute around your city. Life in town leaves all of us a little lazy and floating in familiarity with our daily routine; there is no much difference between ants going to work and people commuting, really. But familiarity breeds contempt, including disregard for safety measures because we tend to take things for granted; sometimes, however, problems of all sorts from minor failures within the transport network to serious accidents and terrorist attacks take place and aside from the danger inherent to each one of those scenarios, collateral damage caused by panic includes asphixiation, stampedes, rioting and other security problems.  Due to several and frequent lynching attempts, in Argentina escape tunnels were redesigned so that presidents can escape from the presidential palace to a helipad where their heliciopters land and take off, like in this case. Each dangerous situation taking place within a confined space becomes even more serious: A fire is a problem; a fire in a forest is even a bigger problem, but an uncontrolled fire inside a skyscraper is almost surely deadly for those trapped inside. So it is very important to regain control of what we do and instead of staying comfortably numb as we communte, get to know the vehicles that we use and the spaces that we frequently visit. In cruises and commercial aircraft passengers are told about emergency and safety measures; in urban transports they are not, or at least not to the same degree by far. Getting to know how to evacuate the places that you are in most of the day could be indispensable for your survival one day and it is not a hard thing to do: You should just look around.  Always look around before stepping into any sort of public transportation. |
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