People would travel for that one product and queue for hours".
With electronic payment the elderly no longer have to queue for hours to get their monthly money.
During a "rehearsal" last week it attracted close to its 30,000 daily capacity, forcing visitors to queue for hours.
Many travellers instead decided to join a queue for hours and be booked on the next available train.
That, and the quiet humility with which families would queue for hours under a scorching sun to receive their vaccines.
People queue for hours outside emergency rooms in the rain, and roads flood where promised bridges have not been built.
The service worsens, the rich move to private insurance while the poor queue, for hours, days, months.
The tunnel is notoriously gridlocked: cars queue for hours, with passengers unable to open their windows because of the fumes.
Amnesty found that detainees on Manus Island "have fainted from heat stroke because they are forced to queue for hours in the sun for food".
The dilapidated state oil refinery cannot keep pace, so the pumps in Lagos have run dry, and motorists have to queue for hours to refuel.
The French can keep their croissants and let Americans queue for hours for a faddish "cronut" if they so choose; all we want is a humble pasty.
