• atro_city@fedia.io
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    10 hours ago

    If they need the toilet, they will have to use the restrooms in the stations, which are not near the platforms.

    Sounds like a planning mistake…

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    19 hours ago

    The toilet break was described as “urgent”.

    I’m surprised that they don’t have some contingency plan for this sort of thing. You know, like radio ahead and have a substitute conductor waiting at the next station. Because shit happens.

    Maybe they do have a contingency plan and it failed.

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    21 hours ago

    But there might not have been any major inconvenience to passengers, as trains continued to arrive and depart at the same intervals as usual.

    This is a big thing. They come every 5 minutes going every direction in Seoul. No one checks the schedule before they get on.

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      15 hours ago

      The benefits of such a high frequency really makes transit so much more user friendly. In my area we only have buses, and risking waiting a full hour or more if you miss your bus cause it was a tad early sucks a lot and isn’t even trying to compete with the convenience of a car.

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        8 hours ago

        The high frequency is essential, and definitely the part you notice when you travel functional cities