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Why not do the same with Amtrak's reports? From a European perspective a 15-22 minute dwell time sounds ludicrous. My local train station is pretty large and d
by crote 2y ago
Why not do the same with Amtrak's reports?
From a European perspective a 15-22 minute dwell time sounds ludicrous. My local train station is pretty large and designed around through trains, and a 7-minute followup between departures (so between train 1 departing on track X to train 2 departing on track X) is routine here.
If it can be done over here, what makes Penn Station so special that they need 3x as much time? Why can't Amtrak do what other railway companies have been doing for years? Amtrak is already lying about other countries using headway-based scheduling, so can they really be trusted about the rest?
I have no idea if this ETA article is 100% trustworthy, but Amtrak definitely isn't.
- Ericson2314 2y agoThank you! We need a lot more Europeans berating us, truly! :)
- TimK65 2y agoI live in Stockholm. Dwells on the commuter rail system here -- formerly at Stockholm Central, now at the new (2017) Stockholm City underground commuter station -- are scheduled for 3 minutes and have been for decades. The commuter rail service here is a bit of a basket case, but that has nothing to do with through-running practices, which make the system much better than it otherwise would be.