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Re:Silicon Valley bets on new transport to counter the rise ... by metadat on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @08:50PM (#32090643)
That's a train every 3 minutes.

What country has this? Definitely not USA, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Spain, France, Italy, or Portugal.

EDIT: My mistake, thank you folks! Your experience traveling abroad is different than mine. For a proper train in especially Spain or Italy during off-peak hours, there were often only one per day for many routes.

Caltrain and BART are both still utter disgraces.

Re:Silicon Valley bets on new transport to counter the rise ... by BlargMcLarg on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @08:57PM (#32090685)
Popular intracity buslines in bigger Dutch cities drove every 5-10 mins at peak times pre-COVID. It's really not that high of a standard.
Re:Silicon Valley bets on new transport to counter the rise ... by josegonzalez on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @09:02PM (#32090720)
During peak hours, NYC has subways running every 2-5 minutes. It’s usually a 5-10 minute wait during the day otherwise (and it’s about a 20 minute wait off-hours).
Re:Silicon Valley bets on new transport to counter the rise ... by dredmorbius on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @10:27PM (#32091311)
From some recent HN discussions, a 2 minute headway for tracked transit seems to be the minimum based on both safe stopping distances and dwell time.

BART achieved 4 minute headways through the San Francisco subway portion. That also effectively limits headways on branch lines (absent additional trackage through SF) as when multiple 15m headway lines are combined the net headway is reduced.

For longer-haul commute service, 5--10 m headways aren't unreasonable, and a dedicated East-bayshore or Peninsula bayshore BART line might be able to accomplish this, with either a transfer or dedicated trackage in SF itself.

(Muni Metro runs on what was intended to be additional BART trackage.)

See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31774765

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31834413

Re:Silicon Valley bets on new transport to counter the rise ... by vladvasiliu on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @09:05PM (#32090747)
> What country has this? Definitely not [...] France

Many metro lines in Paris run at less than 3 minute intervals during peak times (when there aren't any "incidents"). Even the aging line 6 has around 3 minute intervals during rush hour.

I'm not very familiar with the Bay Area, so I don't know how these would compare to the line described by OP distance-wise. Longer distance trains in Paris (RER and other suburban lines) don't run at 3 minute intervals either.

Re:Silicon Valley bets on new transport to counter the rise ... by gcharris on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @08:54PM (#32090673)
The skytrain in Vancouver, Canada has 3 minute frequency at peak.
Re:Silicon Valley bets on new transport to counter the rise ... by alephxyz on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @10:55PM (#32091474)
The o-train in Ottawa and the greens and orange lines in Montreal too.
Re:Silicon Valley bets on new transport to counter the rise ... by jamesmackennon on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @08:56PM (#32090684)
Hong Kong and Singapore do. It's quite nice, really.
Re:Silicon Valley bets on new transport to counter the rise ... by siquick on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @09:42PM (#32091001)
The new Sydney Metro has trains every 4 minutes in some areas. Can’t really remember ever waiting long for a train in Barcelona when I lived there.
Re:Silicon Valley bets on new transport to counter the rise ... by philbert101 on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @09:01PM (#32090716)
Subways in London, Tokyo and Moscow. Probably not on all lines though and maybe not at all times.
Re:Silicon Valley bets on new transport to counter the rise ... by blibble on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @10:29PM (#32091318)
the Victoria line in London has 36 trains per hour

or a train every 1 minute 40 seconds

(2 track railway, all station stops)

Re:Silicon Valley bets on new transport to counter the rise ... by beepbeepcabbage on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @10:25PM (#32091294)
I can catch a tram every 4 minutes during peak times a block from my apt in NL. I haven't had to drive in years.