So glad I don’t have to put up with the terrible punctuality of the Japanese Rail network!

BBC link

edit: too late

😉

Disgusting, doesn’t even confirm that he carried out Seppuku either!

This is exactly the kind of poor service that you expect when you nationalise rail and infrastructure. The Japanese are obviously socialist politically correct libtards.

Compensation please for early departure … 😆

The Japanese obsession with punctuality is not entirely admirable.

Amagasaki rail crash

Not to go all “9/11” thread on this, but there is much speculation mentioned in that link, and it also mentions the driver being on a non-essential call to the station at the time of the accident.

Personally, we found “the Japanese obsession with punctuality” utterly fantastic. 🙂

I was travelling on the Tokyo Metro once as was stood in the compartment with just glass between me and the driver. In the middle of the high tech dashboard was cut out for his fob watch alongside the digital time display. At every station he stared intently at his watch before doing a 321 Ted Rogers style countdown with his fingers and then engaging the drive control. It was quite extraordinary to watch.

After a trip to Japan my rather meticulous boss couldn’t praise it enough. His favourite points were the punctuality, the behaviour of pedestrians (they walk on the left side of the road so everyone is walking in the same direction) and the fact schools didn’t need cleaners in the same way ours did as.the children tidied and cleaned at the end of each day . . . I think he dreamt of bringing that to our office bit it wouldn’t have gone down too well!

A bit OT but the Italian Frecciarossa I was on from Rome – Naples was about 10 minutes late in leaving. Everyone got a free something (one thing, help yourself) off the trolley.

avdave – very similar to the Edinburgh trams, except they only use two fingers and it’s not for counting down