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Certainly not suggesting that - in fact, I ride this particular rail on the weekend every few months. It's never crowded on the weekend, except before and afte

Certainly not suggesting that - in fact, I ride this particular rail on the weekend every few months. It's never crowded on the weekend, except before and after baseball games. It runs roughly every hour (with a few additional express trains) on the weekend, very similar to the rural trains you describe in Denmark. My point is that you can't just show up at a commuter rail station and complain that you have to wait a while at a bare-bones platform. It's built for people who take it at the same time every day, commonly driving to the station.

Symbiote 8y ago
The CalTrain seems to run about once an hour at the weekend, but there are gaps — there's no train at 13:XX, 16:XX, 19:XX or 22:XX. It's just 30km from San Francisco, and Milbrae has a population of about 21,000. The "Lokaltoger" on Zealand run every half hour on Saturdays, and every hour on Sundays, with the stations at 40-70km from Copenhagen. The settlements are mostly around 1-2 thousand people, although here we can include children and the elderly as potential users as it's not expected to drive to the stations. If I use public transport every day during the week, then when going to similar places at the weekend I will certainly complain if the trains are infrequent. http://www.caltrain.com/schedules/weekend-timetable.html http://www.caltrain.com/schedules/weekend-timetable.html http://www.lokaltog.dk/media/1179/920r-frederiksvaerkbanen.pdf http://www.lokaltog.dk/media/1179/920r-frederiksvaerkbanen.p...