For years, the quirk has required even experienced riders to engage in guesswork or, more often, drift toward the middle of the platform, a hedge that often leads to uneven crowds within the four cars of the line's typical train.
I activated my frugal sixth sense, analyzing the lunch menus posted outside and the crowds within, hoping to deduce which one had the finest meal for the least money.
One lingering fear is that the crowds within the venues will be more SW19 (mostly white, middle class and middle aged) than E20 (the new postcode given to the Olympic Park in Stratford).
As she often does, Ms. Ryan commissioned photographers with a mix of visual styles, from Mr. Khan's poetic, artful approach to Mr. Kander's black-and-white portraits of London artists and Mr. Neville's focused images of crowds within the city's subcultures.
In Biewald's words, it's a way to create "a fair system" where people can still access the jobs they want, while also finding "higher value crowds" within the company's overall workforce.
The private databases, in short, place vast, fluid, anonymous crowds within easy reach of the profusion of powerful or potent goods and services that prosperity and technology combine to create.
