[yoube]

That's horseshit. Granted, peak hour trains from Flinders are packed and using a laptop is a bit difficult since your elbows keep bumping into the next person sitting, but not being able to use a phone? People are always on their phones, reading, or knitting.

[reitzensteinm]

Yeah, I read the above comment with a four block to myself coming out of Flinders on the Blackburn line. Never? Come on.

[samplatt]

Not in my experience of peak hours, no, never. Certainly not within the CBD, where I'm based.

Outside of peak hours is an entirely different story.