That's a decent growth but man...if full service is just 16 daily trips, they're toast. Even the Hartford Line has that--and it has the advantage of serving more stations. America gotta realize that the only way to get money in passenger rail is in HIGH FREQUENCY servicehttps://twitter.com/MarketUrbanism/status/1046562405331988480 …
...and? Atami, Kakegawa, Maibara, etc, are hardly comparable to Tokyo, Osaka, or Nagoya
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Even new routes like the Hokkaido Shinkansen have planned stops at tiny towns like Yakumo and Kutchan just because they're conveniently on-the-way
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Sure, because they're meant to replace the legacy lines, which are being given to third sector railways.
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But on thick enough lines to have both kinds of traffic, there's way more express traffic. Compare Nozomi and Kodama frequencies.
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Compare Nozomi and TGV frequencies tho If they didn't run *any* Kodama, that would be one thing, but they still do--and it's not as if the 3rd sector or original Tokaido lines have *stopped* running; their operations are very much a part of the "run local trains too" aspect
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Sure, but in places in Japan where population density and city size are more similar to the situation of Florida, it's down to Third Sector.
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There are 6.8 million people living between Vero Beach and Miami (well, a few are out in Homestead etc) and almost all are within 10 miles of the coast, no way this would be third sector in Japan
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Compare Shikoku--only 3.8 million on the entire island, scattered all over it instead of in one neat linear corridor, and yet most rail is done by JR Shikoku rather than 3rd sector operators; it even supports two private rail companies (Iyotetsu and Kotoden)pic.twitter.com/c9BCmwuzrn
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JR Shikoku is the weakest JR, no?
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