{"id":2832,"date":"2017-12-03T09:35:27","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T09:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/?p=2832"},"modified":"2022-06-11T19:20:46","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T18:20:46","slug":"it-wouldnt-happen-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/posts\/2832","title":{"rendered":"It wouldn&#8217;t happen here &#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/nov\/17\/japanese-rail-company-apologises-train-20-seconds-early\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a> that a Japanese train operator has apologised to customers for a train that departed 20 seconds early.<\/p>\n<p>Commuters usually complain about delays and cancelled trains, but a Japanese railway company apologised on Tuesday 14 November 2017 for departing early \u2014 20 seconds to be exact.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tsukuba_Express\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tsukuba Express<\/a> line between Tokyo and the city of Tsukuba in Japan was scheduled to leave 9:44:40 local time, but instead left at 9:44:20, robbing riders the 20 seconds to sprint to the train before the doors close. The train was departing from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Minami-Nagareyama_Station\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minami Nagareyama<\/a> Station, located north of Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>In England it&#8217;s a bit different. SRTA often sees complaints that Southeastern staff have closed the doors way too early &#8211; but that seems to be so that customers can pointlessly stab the open doors button for 30 seconds or more before the train actually departs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian reports that a Japanese train operator has apologised to customers for a train that departed 20 seconds early. Commuters usually complain about delays and cancelled trains, but a Japanese railway company apologised on Tuesday 14 November 2017 for <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/posts\/2832\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"It wouldn't happen here .... apology when a train leaves early @se_railway @tlrailuk","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trains"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Keith Alderman","author_link":"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/posts\/author\/keith"},"featured_img":null,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/posts\/category\/trains\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Trains<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Trains<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 8 years ago","modified":"Updated 4 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 3 December 2017","modified":"Updated on 11 June 2022"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 3 December 2017 09:35","modified":"Updated on 11 June 2022 19:20"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3QBJ4-JG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-04 21:59:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2832"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3931,"href":"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832\/revisions\/3931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}