← Back to context Comment by mcv 1 day ago I find this figure absolutely baffling. How can you run a train system with half of all trains being late? 4 comments mcv Reply apexalpha 1 day ago Someone has never been outside the Western world, lol.In many countries the train comes when it comes and goes when it can, regardless of any fictional like schedules. mcv 1 day ago I have. Mali didn't have trains at all. Our Indonesian train was on time.It's not like countries outside Europe can't make trains run on time. Japan's are even more punctual than Switzerland's. alexfoo 1 day ago (Hence the occasionally heard witty announcement in the UK…)“Please mind the gap between the timetable and reality.”
apexalpha 1 day ago Someone has never been outside the Western world, lol.In many countries the train comes when it comes and goes when it can, regardless of any fictional like schedules. mcv 1 day ago I have. Mali didn't have trains at all. Our Indonesian train was on time.It's not like countries outside Europe can't make trains run on time. Japan's are even more punctual than Switzerland's. alexfoo 1 day ago (Hence the occasionally heard witty announcement in the UK…)“Please mind the gap between the timetable and reality.”
mcv 1 day ago I have. Mali didn't have trains at all. Our Indonesian train was on time.It's not like countries outside Europe can't make trains run on time. Japan's are even more punctual than Switzerland's.
alexfoo 1 day ago (Hence the occasionally heard witty announcement in the UK…)“Please mind the gap between the timetable and reality.”
Someone has never been outside the Western world, lol.
In many countries the train comes when it comes and goes when it can, regardless of any fictional like schedules.
I have. Mali didn't have trains at all. Our Indonesian train was on time.
It's not like countries outside Europe can't make trains run on time. Japan's are even more punctual than Switzerland's.
(Hence the occasionally heard witty announcement in the UK…)
“Please mind the gap between the timetable and reality.”