Amtrak Peninsula Corridor Service (Caltrain) - Safety and Ontime performance

I’ve been writing about delays recently - so I thought I should also take the time to point out positive things about our trains here in California when an opportunity arises:

On a recent trip, I took the following picture at the San Jose Diridon Station:

99.11% of all Caltrain trains were “ontime” this year so far (well, I wonder what exactly “ontime” means - does anyone know? Usually there is a maximum delay for a train to still be “ontime”. I know that “ontime” doesn’t usually mean really ontime to the scheduled minute). And only 1 employee injury so far - that seems pretty good as well.

So congratulations to all Caltrain and Amtrak employees for that achievement!

Posted in: Uncategorized | September 28, 2006 12:01 am