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Old December 16th 14, 04:25 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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On 16.12.14 13:22, Recliner wrote:
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.

Which has indeed led to deaths in Japan:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amagasaki_rail_crash#Cause


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