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I bet a big part of it in Japan is the sheer number of trains running drags down that average. If you count the Yamanote, with peak frequency of trains every 2
by rtpg 7y ago
I bet a big part of it in Japan is the sheer number of trains running drags down that average. If you count the Yamanote, with peak frequency of trains every 2 or 3 minutes, you’re gonna get a lot of stuff on time.
Think about how rare power outages are nowadays. When infrastructure becomes important enough it becomes run pretty smoothly.
- fishnchips 7y agoRail !== tube. You’d be comparing Tokyo’s Yamanote to London’s Circle. I used both to commute at one point or another and found them equally robust. OTOH rail in the UK and Japan are very different stories indeed.
- rtpg 7y agoI think it would depend on the stats used. Yamanote is still JR. The Joban line goes all the way to Sendai, if you really want it to. So if you got lateness stats on trains, it would likely take all the JR stuff and mix stuff up I agree with your sentiment, my comment is more about my theory that stats would not make the distinction (though it would likely exclude things like Tokyo Metro or the monorails).