Show This to AMTRAK or NJ Transit, or MTA

In Japan they take things seriously. As the Guardian notes:

t was an admission that would no doubt raise a sardonic smile among many commuters, and perhaps have them dreaming of relocating to Japan.The operator of a private railway firm that serves the Tokyo suburbs has issued an apology after one of its trains departed 20 seconds ahead of schedule. Passengers boarding Tuesday’s 9.44.40am Tsukuba Express from Minami Nagareyama station, just north of Tokyo, were unaware anything was amiss when the train, which had arrived on time, pulled away from the platform at 9.44.20am. The train’s operator, though, believed the foul-up was serious enough to warrant an apology. “We deeply apologise for the severe inconvenience imposed upon our customers,” the Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company said in a statement.

Having gone through AMTRAK's closing of Penn Station, multiple failures of NJ Transit and the ever occurring delays and breakdowns of the MTA, this is amazing. One enters the NY City subways and it is like entering Hell. Filled with various characters, filth, decay, collapsing infrastructure, and union employees perpetually delaying things, or worse AMTRAK, who could not get a watch to be correct twice a day, or NJ Transit who has the habit of stopping trains randomly and shoving all the passengers off to find their way home from some drug infested parking lot.

The new Tax Bill does not address any of this. In fact it makes the cost of living in this Dante like level of the Inferno just a bit more costly.

Thanks folks.