This is an interesting concept someone came up with. The new Jerusalem light-rail has come under criticism for being extremely slow. One person, a local Jerusalem resident, decided he would test how slow it actually is. he decided to race the train.
Spivack won the race, coming to the end of the route 4 minutes before the train.
To be fair, the train still has to stop at various stops and let passengers off and on, which slows it down, both in speed between stops but also at the stops.
I guess this means they need to work on the system to speed up those trains.
or else it means the people of Jerusalem might as well start running or jogging, because many of them will be able to get to their locations quicker that way than by using public transportation. And they will get healthier in the process!
I do know that I run considerably slower than 5 minutes per kilometer. if I had tried this the train would have run me over. it might be a good training session though, as the train bearing down on you might make you run faster. Do it often enough and you have found a great method of increasing your speed.
Yeah. Let's see him do it while picking up a few hundred people and dropping them off in various places!
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Haven taken the light rail a number of times in the past few weeks I must say that I am very pleased with its service. You must understand that the light rail has just started running, and still has some things they need to smooth out (intersection priority, etc').
ReplyDeleteOverall the trains speed has been increasing, today, on a straight stretch between two stops the train reached 60km/h. That is faster than the cars were going.
I don't know how 6 minutes from the central bus station to kikar zion can be considered a bad thing.