Next time please include the headline in post
Chennai Metro to Run Trains Every 5 Minutes
Cheers.
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Oh, my bad -- I thought the headline showed up in the post too!
There's usually a "body" field where you can include your own comments!
I'm on the web interface so I do actually see the headline in the body (plus the beginning of the article itself), but I think maybe it doesn't show up on other clients?
Indeed
No worries. Depends the client.
I wish we had 5 minute headways haha.
I live in Mumbai -- while the commuter trains have lots of room for improvement, they do run at ~3 minute headway for most of the day, and that's on tracks shared with the national rail network. I'd expect a metro system with its own dedicated tracks to be able to do even better, at least at peak hours.
Just to be clear, I'm not complaining -- 5 minutes is pretty great, and the Mumbai Metro system (separate from the commuter trains) is also worse at about ~6 minutes -- but even so, I was hoping this system might be able to achieve times like the Paris or Moscow Metro
Yesterday I waited ~20m for the TTC, then went and got Tim's, walked back to the TTC, and caught it as it finally arrived.
Original ETA was like 5m
I saw a joke where someone in Germany said they arrived too late for the 7:30am train, but were just in time for the 6:30am train. It's like a meme how late they are.
Where I live it’s like 15 to 20 minutes and the trains are so jam packed with people that it is literally difficult to breathe. I’m not exaggerating.