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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I believe I heard a station attendant, apprising a coworker that the train got here five minutes late and required five minutes to turnaround, say “We can do it in three if we hustle.”
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Japanese logistics is fascinating, partly as an engineering matter and partly for successfully inculcating a culture where someone cleaning trains on the second busiest day of the year would hustle to save 120 seconds.
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Announcement just now: “Although responding to a passenger in distress resulted in us arriving late into Tokyo, departing Tokyo 8 minutes behind schedule, and departing Shin-Yokohama 5 minutes behind schedule, we believe we will arrive in Nagoya as scheduled.”
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Replying to @patio11
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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