How does the Japanese system live with the stuff that plagues Western transportation systems?
For example in Munich there is nearly every day one or more huuuge delays due to:
- people on the track (sprayers, drunkards, people whose phone fell down)
- animals on the track, ranging from stray dogs over wolves to deer - and in some cases, entire herds of sheep... one caused an ICE to derail and destroy a huge amount of tunnel track in the progress once.
- suicides (1.000 suicides in Germany per year, and that's only the successful ones)
- accidents on street crossings (okay, that's eliminated on the highspeed tracks, but regional traffic and metro rails suffer often enough)
- kids letting balloons loose in the underground sections, where they shorten out the power line, sometimes causing major destruction - and occasionally it's a bird that does the same and ends up grilled
- absolute morons who do not make room for people trying to exit the train
- people with disabilities (wheelchair users, but also old people who simply have problems moving!), who sometimes need to be attended by the conductor, e.g. to put out a ramp
- technical breakdowns
However, in Japan this seems to be nearly unheard of.
For example in Munich there is nearly every day one or more huuuge delays due to:
- people on the track (sprayers, drunkards, people whose phone fell down)
- animals on the track, ranging from stray dogs over wolves to deer - and in some cases, entire herds of sheep... one caused an ICE to derail and destroy a huge amount of tunnel track in the progress once.
- suicides (1.000 suicides in Germany per year, and that's only the successful ones)
- accidents on street crossings (okay, that's eliminated on the highspeed tracks, but regional traffic and metro rails suffer often enough)
- kids letting balloons loose in the underground sections, where they shorten out the power line, sometimes causing major destruction - and occasionally it's a bird that does the same and ends up grilled
- absolute morons who do not make room for people trying to exit the train
- people with disabilities (wheelchair users, but also old people who simply have problems moving!), who sometimes need to be attended by the conductor, e.g. to put out a ramp
- technical breakdowns
However, in Japan this seems to be nearly unheard of.