Of course, it was a Saturday so there would be fewer people on their way to work anyway. But at this time of the morning, most of the people who were out and about in the Milanese subway were fellow travellers, as we can see from the baggage of both the woman in the foreground and the man in the background.
Thankfully I still had a few hours before I had to start hauling bags around again. It was just me and my camera bag, and that's the way I like it.