Revealed: NYC commuter trains leave one minute late

[bikkuri bahn]

One minute difference between public and working (employee) timetable, so technically they are not late departures, I guess...

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/17/nyregion/17minute.html?_r=1&hp

[Bernard]

I love that article. I can't tell you how old that photo is either, they haven't had those passenger cars for some time now and it look newly painted.

The LIRR is notorious for having delays most of the time at rush hour going home and during the Winter months. What is really frustrating is that when there are delays, a train can sit on the platform for 20 minutes with its doors closed not letting any additional passengers on and the platform becomes dangerously over crowded.

[Guest ___]

Amtrak's standing policy is to hold a train if a passenger is late up to ten minutes.

[bikkuri bahn]

Amtrak's standing policy is to hold a train if a passenger is late up to ten minutes.

 

(!) Must have the safety of padding in the operating timetable.  No three minute headways to worry about.

[Guest ___]

The irony is that in Japan if a train arrives or departs a minute post-schedule it is late. If an Amtrak train arrives within 3 hours of its scheduled time it is considered "on-time"

[bikkuri bahn]

I hope they, ahem, tighten up the definition of "on-time" when (if) they start operation of the HSR line in California

[Guest ___]

I hope they, ahem, tighten up the definition of "on-time" when (if) they start operation of the HSR line in California

 

Since the HSR won't ever happen it won't be much of an issue.