Re:Elon Musk's Boring Company Begins First Tunnel
by mikepurvis on Friday May 12, 2017 @02:10PM
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Anything less than 5-10 minutes is generally considered to be "frequent service", where it's no longer necessary to worry about hitting a specific train, since the next train will be along fairly quickly regardless.
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Re:Elon Musk's Boring Company Begins First Tunnel
by Retric on Friday May 12, 2017 @02:58PM
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There is a large quality of life difference based on maximum trip time.
If I need to make 2 trains each way with an max of 15 minutes of wait time each. Then I need to add 1 hour of padding to cover that worst case over the day or risk being late. Further, if anything happens that can go well past 1h of just waiting. Cut that to a daily 12 minutes 'worse case' makes a massive difference.