• pycorax@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Isn’t scheduling able to mitigate issues like that? It helps a lot that Shinkansens are pretty much always on time. Can’t wait for the Chuo to open eventually though.

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      5 days ago

      You’ve already got various services running on the same lines basically as close together as they can, so there’s only so much wiggle room to accomdate something faster than all of them longer stops on existing services could do something, but that has other knock-on effects. Building a new rail and retrofitting every station would work, but it’s also a nightmare to both get the land and do all that development.