In 15 years of riding the Shinkansen multiple times a year, just had the first delay I’ve ever seen: eight minutes, for a train which goes cross country. Train staff is now updating the schedule so that people transferring to local trains at e.g. Nagoya know which to get on.
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Announcement continued: “There exists the possibility that we will not arrive in Nagoya as scheduled, depending on conditions en route. Thank you for your patience and cooperation; we deeply regret the inconvenience.”
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The most frequent cause of delays (5-20x per year) on Caltrain is a person jumping in front of a train. I’m curious how Shinkansen avoids this problem
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A combination of gates which only open once the train is in the station, attentive staff, and a widely messaged precommitment to extract $100k+ in damages from your grieving family if you do that. (I am reporting and not endorsing an actual policy, peanut gallery.)
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