Over there precision punctuality is ingrained in their culture. You've got to build in a lot more slack time here, because some patronage flunkies somewhere will gum up the works. Plus all the timewasting overkill rules resulting from decades of trial lawyers, dumb juries, and hack judges abusing the legal system.

Be sure to thank your Democrat officials for creating and protecting all of that.


Max Wyss Wrote:
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> Just FWIW, Bern RBS is a four track terminal
> station fed by a simple double-tracked tunnel. At
> peak, they return 20 trains per hour (on three
> lines), where four of them use two slots because
> they have intermediate stops between Bern RBS and
> Worblaufen, where the three lines split. Without
> these stops, the capacity would be 24 tph… OK, all
> trains are EMUs.
>
> Just to confirm the above mentioned quote.
>
> Another example is tracks 3 and 4 in München
> Ostbahnhof, where 2 S-Bahn lines change direction.
> And both lines operate at 20 minute intervals,
> which means that each track is used by 6 trains
> per hour.
>
> Just to confirm the above mentioned quote.