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Caltrain is often behind schedule. Trains have break down or hit cars. It's a huge pain for daily Caltrain commuters. See: https://twitter.com/Caltrainstatus ht
by bowenli 12y ago
Caltrain is often behind schedule. Trains have break down or hit cars. It's a huge pain for daily Caltrain commuters. See: https://twitter.com/Caltrainstatus https://twitter.com/Caltrainstatus
- ak217 12y agoAmong the things Caltrain has to contend with (aside from old equipment prone to breaking) are several dozen at grade crossings and freight train traffic on the same line (!)
- bdamm 12y agoFortunately the freight traffic is mostly after commute hours. Imagine what will happen with those so-called "high-speed" trains coming through!
- guard-of-terra 12y agoAren't you supposed to have separate high-speed track for high-speed trains?
- jarek 12y agoWhile I feel for the grade crossings, freight traffic does not necessarily prevent good service. To give one example, North London Line of the London Overground has freight trains in between every-15-minutes service outside peak hours.
- digitalchaos 12y agoThis is just the exceptional delays. People have given up reporting the "normal" delays we are now seeing every day due to overcrowding of the trains. The overcrowding slows down the onboarding/offboarding of trains by a lot. Another crowdsourced caltrain twitter account is https://twitter.com/caltrain https://twitter.com/caltrain You can see some of the more granular delays there. All these crowdsourced status accounts should be proof that caltrain SHOULD publish the raw data for us to use.
- markcerqueira 12y agoEven aside from major issues like hitting cars or people, delays are not "exceptional" when it comes to Caltrain -- it is the norm. An exception is Caltrain arriving on time.