• NoneOfUrBusiness
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    94 days ago

    Japan is the MVP here. I live there and I literally have never seen a train not arrive exactly at the scheduled time. However “public” transport is privately owned so… Uh… Yeah, tradeoffs.

    • ivanafterall ☑️
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      44 days ago

      Given that it works so well, what are the negatives due to being private? Is it expensive to ride?

      • NoneOfUrBusiness
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        94 days ago

        Is it expensive to ride?

        Yeah. It also stops running at around 11 or 12 so if you stay out late you just might find you can’t get back home.

        • @AA5B@lemmy.world
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          13 days ago

          Must pe nice. Here I was about to add that you can’t take a train to work if you might have to stay a bit late, but trains outside rush hour are one hour, then two hours apart, and stop way too early