Re:Nearly half of Bay Area residents say they want to leave
by Symbiote on Monday June 04, 2018 @09:35AM
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The CalTrain seems to run about once an hour at the weekend, but there are gaps — there's no train at 13:XX, 16:XX, 19:XX or 22:XX. It's just 30km from San Francisco, and Milbrae has a population of about 21,000.
The "Lokaltoger" on Zealand run every half hour on Saturdays, and every hour on Sundays, with the stations at 40-70km from Copenhagen. The settlements are mostly around 1-2 thousand people, although here we can include children and the elderly as potential users as it's not expected to drive to the stations.
If I use public transport every day during the week, then when going to similar places at the weekend I will certainly complain if the trains are infrequent.
http://www.caltrain.com/schedules/weekend-timetable.html
http://www.lokaltog.dk/media/1179/920r-frederiksvaerkbanen.p...
It runs roughly every hour (with a few additional express trains) on the weekend, very similar to the rural trains you describe in Denmark.
My point is that you can't just show up at a commuter rail station and complain that you have to wait a while at a bare-bones platform. It's built for people who take it at the same time every day, commonly driving to the station.