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Japan is adorable. In New York, we're grateful to have trains that work at all.

by jdlyga 9y ago

rbjorklin 9y ago
Sweden’s the same :/ I commute by train to work and every week I’m loosing minutes and sometimes hours.
- arkitaip 9y ago
  In Sweden we're still struggling with leaves falling on the tracks. And snowfall. And "extreme" heat (30C).
  - baud147258 9y ago
    We got the leaves problems in France too! At least the snowfall problem is much rarer.
AznHisoka 9y ago
That's the only thing I pay big taxes to NY for - the convenient trains (what else is NY useful for?). And they can't even get that right!
- nemo44x 9y ago
  I empathize with the MTA a bit. It's an old system that is probably underfunded and operated by a very strong union which costs a lot of money. There are still parts of the system that no manufacturer builds for anymore requiring staff machinists to custom make parts. The signaling system is ancient and any real effort to modernize it (like on the L line) is fought by the union which considers modernization a threat to jobs. Lastly, it's a system that runs 24 hours a day which almost no other train system can claim. finding times for the appropriate maintenance is very difficult and requires all the rerouting you tend to see on the weekends. People litter so much more in NYC than they do in other major cities across the world in my experience and litter on the tracks causes so many issues. And there's little to no time to clear litter daily off the tracks. The system is underfunded, oversubscribed and outdated.
  - AznHisoka 9y ago
    Totally understand. I can appreciate that, and acknowledge the difficulty of maintaining such a legacy system. Just don't have the nerve to increase my taxes if you give that excuse though.
tech2 9y ago
Try southern England - http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/southern-rail http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/southern-rail - it's comically bad.
- darrenf 9y ago
  To clarify, as that paints a fairly broad brush: Southern Rail cover a dense but geographically small part of southern England. Their reputation is rightfully poor, but in large part because their performance is exceptionally worse than most other franchises, I believe? To put it another way: large parts of southern England are served by reliable train operators (IMO and IME - source: 20+ years of commuting on South Western Railway, née South West Trains).

Japan is adorable. In New York, we're grateful to have trains that work at all.

by jdlyga 9y ago

Japan is adorable. In New York, we're grateful to have trains that work at all.

rbjorklin 9y ago

Sweden’s the same :/ I commute by train to work and every week I’m loosing minutes and sometimes hours.

arkitaip 9y ago
In Sweden we're still struggling with leaves falling on the tracks. And snowfall. And "extreme" heat (30C).
- baud147258 9y ago
  We got the leaves problems in France too! At least the snowfall problem is much rarer.

AznHisoka 9y ago

That's the only thing I pay big taxes to NY for - the convenient trains (what else is NY useful for?). And they can't even get that right!

nemo44x 9y ago
I empathize with the MTA a bit. It's an old system that is probably underfunded and operated by a very strong union which costs a lot of money. There are still parts of the system that no manufacturer builds for anymore requiring staff machinists to custom make parts. The signaling system is ancient and any real effort to modernize it (like on the L line) is fought by the union which considers modernization a threat to jobs. Lastly, it's a system that runs 24 hours a day which almost no other train system can claim. finding times for the appropriate maintenance is very difficult and requires all the rerouting you tend to see on the weekends. People litter so much more in NYC than they do in other major cities across the world in my experience and litter on the tracks causes so many issues. And there's little to no time to clear litter daily off the tracks. The system is underfunded, oversubscribed and outdated.
- AznHisoka 9y ago
  Totally understand. I can appreciate that, and acknowledge the difficulty of maintaining such a legacy system. Just don't have the nerve to increase my taxes if you give that excuse though.

tech2 9y ago

Try southern England - http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/southern-rail http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/southern-rail - it's comically bad.

darrenf 9y ago
To clarify, as that paints a fairly broad brush: Southern Rail cover a dense but geographically small part of southern England. Their reputation is rightfully poor, but in large part because their performance is exceptionally worse than most other franchises, I believe? To put it another way: large parts of southern England are served by reliable train operators (IMO and IME - source: 20+ years of commuting on South Western Railway, née South West Trains).