JR News

[Guest bill937ca]

News of additional stops in Tokyo and Yokohama on the Tokaido Shinkansen line among other items.  Some slower moving and underused over night trains are also being discontinued.

 

http://www.japanrail.com/JR_news.html#1220

[Darren Jeffries]

Thanks for the info Bill,

 

Got to hand it to the Japanese, they are always trying to make more efficient travel for their citizens. I only wish BR were as pro-active :P

[Guest Bernard]

Bill,

Another great post, where do you find them. Heck, I liked the article on the railbus that converts in 10-15 seconds, and what a beautiful museum they have in Japan, very futuristic looking.

You think the BR is not up to par, I take the Long Island RR every weekday into NYC and at  the station I depart from, when they designed the new trains, they were so concerned about safety issues, that they made the walls of the cars wider but narrower at the bottom of the train. As a result, the designers created a 14" gap between the platform and the train. There have been at least 3 death and countless number of injuries with people falling into the gap.

The irony is, that since OSHA (safety org in USA) took over, there has been an increase in the amount of injures for riders.