The ‘trolley boys’ who dance with death on Manila’s railway carts

By Agence France-Presse, South China Morning Post; November 25, 2018

As soon as the train rumbles past, the men heave their home-made pushcarts back onto the tracks and passengers hop aboard – cheating death and beating Manila’s notorious traffic.

Scores of commuters in the city of about 12 million are propelled to their destinations daily by so-called “trolley boys” pushing metal carts that ply a few segments of the sprawling capital’s railways.

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