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[email protected] · December 16th 14, 12:34 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 12:31:03 +0000
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 12:16:24 on Tue, 16 Dec
2014, d remarked:
I noticed an ad in the Overground today - 93.55% of services arrived within
5 minutes of their booked time last month or whenever.

Are we supposed to be impressed?

Given that it's probably arrival at their destination only (which will
probably have an additional 5 minutes of recovery time added), then such
stats don't at all reflect the impact on the majority of journeys.

In Japan the line manager would have been sacked immediately if he
hadn't already committed hari kiri.

On the other hand, we don't want drivers ignoring speed limits and
signals, just to get to the destination on time.

No, but they could be slightly less tardy closing the doors. Wouldn't make
up 5 mins but it would help. A much bigger help would be replacing the 378s
with the much faster accelerating S Stock but obviously its too late for that
now.

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Spud