> And despite it all, the complaints are so numerous because the number of passengers and the number of trains is also so numerous! If a train on a track with 3 trains a day in France gets delayed, there will be no knock on effect on any other train. A delay to a train on a track with 3 trains every 10 minutes in Germany will have a much larger impact.
Okay sooo…explain japans nearly flawless record of trains? The whole country is littered with them.
This guy did a single train trip and experienced no delays there and has decided this is the factual experience for the entire history of the rail line. This joke became a joke for a reason. What an absurd article.
I’ve never experienced a delay on a delta flight in my life (having flown the for almost every flight) but that doesn’t mean they don’t have delays.
> because the number of passengers and the number of trains is also so numerous!
I don't think the author's hypothesis, that complaints scale with utilisation, holds.
Germans travel fewer kilometers per year per capita by passenger rail than Japan, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, France and Korea [1]. The two topping that list–Japan and Switzerland–also have exceptional systems.
I'm not sure if most people know but you need to distinguish between two kinds of trains here.
The Shinkansen system is rarely late, that is true. Part of the reason for that is that they are running on their own, isolated tracks. Downside here is that they are quite expensive. Flights between, let's say Tokyo and Osaka, are often faster and cheaper.
The trains that normal people take every day to get to work, are, depending on city and line/owner of course, partially late every single day during rush hour. They don't even show the time or kind of the next train that will come.
The commuters of course know this and just leave the house a bit earlier, so in practice it's not a huge problem.
As someone who has been riding trains to YOK every day for the last 5 years. I don't agree, unless you mean by partially late 1 minute.
I'll admit I rarely take trains that are not on the JR line - so perhaps you're referencing them? Either way I can generally time leaving home and returning home to within 3-4 minutes every day.
I don't want to doxx myself, but they don't put anything on the departure display anymore.
So the train that comes at some point, after 5, 10 minutes, which train is it? Impossible to tell. I just factor it in.
I also hear the same from others riding the busy lines inside of the city. I think it's due to the amount of people getting in/off during the high traffic times, but still, many trains are late 5 out of 7 days at the minimum.
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Okay sooo…explain japans nearly flawless record of trains? The whole country is littered with them.
This guy did a single train trip and experienced no delays there and has decided this is the factual experience for the entire history of the rail line. This joke became a joke for a reason. What an absurd article.
I’ve never experienced a delay on a delta flight in my life (having flown the for almost every flight) but that doesn’t mean they don’t have delays.
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I don't think the author's hypothesis, that complaints scale with utilisation, holds.
Germans travel fewer kilometers per year per capita by passenger rail than Japan, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, France and Korea [1]. The two topping that list–Japan and Switzerland–also have exceptional systems.
[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_rail_usage#Passenger_rail_by_passenger-kilometres_per_capita" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_rail_usag...
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The Shinkansen system is rarely late, that is true. Part of the reason for that is that they are running on their own, isolated tracks. Downside here is that they are quite expensive. Flights between, let's say Tokyo and Osaka, are often faster and cheaper.
The trains that normal people take every day to get to work, are, depending on city and line/owner of course, partially late every single day during rush hour. They don't even show the time or kind of the next train that will come.
The commuters of course know this and just leave the house a bit earlier, so in practice it's not a huge problem.
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I'll admit I rarely take trains that are not on the JR line - so perhaps you're referencing them? Either way I can generally time leaving home and returning home to within 3-4 minutes every day.
frxx · · focus · HN ↗
I also hear the same from others riding the busy lines inside of the city. I think it's due to the amount of people getting in/off during the high traffic times, but still, many trains are late 5 out of 7 days at the minimum.