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Trains are awesome. My thinking is that the implementation sucks. I've been on a train twice in the last ten years. On the one ride, it was hot so it expecte
by doubled112 4y ago
Trains are awesome. My thinking is that the implementation sucks.
I've been on a train twice in the last ten years.
On the one ride, it was hot so it expected to arrive about 45 minutes late. You can't go full speed on hot tracks.
On the same ride, there was construction, so we sat and waited for about 45 minutes in the middle of no where, in the dark. It was long enough they told us to just let our kids run around and brought the snack cart around for free.
That's a lot of delay for a 3.5h ride.
Ontario, Canada.
My in-laws use trains to travel between cities a fair amount. More delayed trips than not.
If you’re not talking about long distances, don’t get me started on the LRT in Ottawa and the months of downtime it has had.
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- stephen_g 4y agoI was on a trip to Switzerland last month - across a couple of dozen train, tram, trolley-bus and regular bus rides, I had just a handful that were delayed - three to four minutes late (mostly on intercity trains that I'm going for an hour or so journey on, so it was basically nothing). But mostly they were bang on time. It's ridiculous, they're absolutely nailing punctuality, cleanliness, frequency, interchanges, mode changes etc.
- soco 4y agoAnd if you happen to miss the connection, no worries there's the next train in 30 minutes.
- ChrisMarshallNY 4y agoIf you are in Tokyo, it's more like 3 minutes.
- soco 4y agoOh by I mean anywhere in the country, not only in the capital. But maybe it's the same in Japan, I don't know.
- ChrisMarshallNY 4y agoDepends on where you are. Tokyo is like Type A++, so the trains are constant. Other areas, probably not so much. But you can get pretty much anywhere in Japan, via train (and maybe a short-haul flight in a 747).
- doubled112 4y agoUnless you live somewhere that the next one isn't coming at all, and now you have to wait twice as long, and jam twice as many people in.