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I can't help but feel that if there was a BART line where the Caltrain currently runs, things would be about a hundred times better than they currently are, on all fronts. Alas...
Electrified Caltrain is infinitely preferable to BART.
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To be (grudgingly) fair to Caltrain, a lot of things are perhaps indirectly out of their control-stuff like suicides (until you get gated platforms to stop people from jumping in front of Baby Bullets) and vehicles stopped on tracks are hard to predict. Likewise they are a victim of their own success-standing room only trains make boarding and unboarding longer than they have to be. Of course, Caltrain has put off el…
I can't help but feel that if there was a BART line where the Caltrain currently runs, things would be about a hundred times better than they currently are, on all fronts. Alas...
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I can't help but feel that if there was a BART line where the Caltrain currently runs, things would be about a hundred times better than they currently are, on all fronts. Alas...
BART should've taken over SP's Peninsula Commute in the 70s, when SP really wanted to get rid of it. Even better would be if BART ran standard gauge and overhead wire.
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Electrified Caltrain is infinitely preferable to BART.
Why electrified vs normal caltrain? Will that decrease the variance or door to door time of using caltrain?
[1]http://www.caltrain.com/projectsplans/CaltrainModernization/... [2] http://www.caltrain.com/Assets/Caltrain+Modernization+Progra...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Electrified Caltrain is infinitely preferable to BART.
Why electrified vs normal caltrain? Will that decrease the variance or door to door time of using caltrain?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't help but feel that if there was a BART line where the Caltrain currently runs, things would be about a hundred times better than they currently are, on all fronts. Alas...
Electrified Caltrain is infinitely preferable to BART.
Seriously, need to break that vicious cycle: you get used to things going bad, people who run them get used to not delivering, breaking due process, posting unrealistic schedules, and BAM - now you think the problem can't be solved, only plotted. I don't remember last time when I have not seen a train at a station at scheduled time, and the place where I live doesn't expire confidence. When something is late, it gets…
To be (grudgingly) fair to Caltrain, a lot of things are perhaps indirectly out of their control-stuff like suicides (until you get gated platforms to stop people from jumping in front of Baby Bullets) and vehicles stopped on tracks are hard to predict. Likewise they are a victim of their own success-standing room only trains make boarding and unboarding longer than they have to be. Of course, Caltrain has put off el…
They could do more to improve the standing room problem, which adds up quickly. My evening train is now perpetually 3-5 minutes late, which adds 10% to the runtime, due to the train in front being overcrowded. They are putting out new timetables for next month that they claim will improve this. Their fix is to move its departure time closer to the slow train in front, and add 3 minutes to the trip duration. Frustrating.
Commenter on blog notices that Caltrain is occasionally single-tracking between those stations due to a bridge replacement. [1]
"Data science" ends up with a bloody neck from Occam's razor.
[1] http://www.caltrain.com/projectsplans/Projects/Caltrain_Capi...
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Electrified Caltrain is infinitely preferable to BART.
Not if it still runs at-grade and keeps killing someone every few weeks.
What would be the advantage of BART over electrified, grade-separated Caltrain? I'm hard-pressed to think of one, and there's definitely one major disadvantage: the nonstandard rail gauge.
Data scientists blog about Caltrain data, come up with convoluted hypothesis about bias in sensors at two stations. Commenter on blog notices that Caltrain is occasionally single-tracking between those stations due to a bridge replacement. [1] "Data science" ends up with a bloody neck from Occam's razor. [1] http://www.caltrain.com/projectsplans/Projects/Caltrain_Capi...