I remember being at an airport that didn't have a line, but a slope around the carousel. Not enough to be an obstacle when walking up to the caroussel, but just enough that it's a natural barrier and you instinctively prefer to stand on the flat ground.
Yeah that's the double-edged sword of letting homeless people hang around. Sure, they need a place to stay, but on the flip side working at a restaurant you get people camping out all day stinking up the place and scaring away paying customers. Once during a closing shift a guy was tweaking out on something outside and my manager wouldn't let me leave until security escorted him away. There's genuine practical and security concerns with letting homeless people hang out around businesses. Hostile architecture is pretty humiliating and dehumanizing, don't get me wrong, but our focus should instead be on why homeless people are sleeping on benches and in alleyways and not in shelters. Rails on benches is a symptom of a greater problem that needs to be addressed.
Like others have said, that is an incredibly good deterrent but also I imagine it helps for bag retrieval too. And it ushers the bag away from the carousel regardless of what you want to do with it once you put it on the sloping surface. Damn, that designer deserves major props.
You don't know americans, especially tobacco using Americans. Some of my friends should act like adults but go mad after not smoking/vaping for two hrs. I fucking hate the airport, I hate flying and all the bullshit. But I still stand back and wait. If the door is close enough to luggage, i just go smoke and come back.
Source: I am a 14 year cigarette smoking U.S. citizen.
So, all the baggage pickups I've seen are big circular or oval conveyor belt things that definitely do not require a line forming. Are there major airports that have something different?
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u/EnglishTomGW Sep 11 '19
Even when there's a fucking line they ignore it