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Porn-Addicted Japs Keep Train Service For 1 Girl! Pervs! Should Learn From SMRT!!

JohnTan

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Japan Keeps This Defunct Train Station Running for Just One Passenger
The train makes only two stops—one when a lone high-school student leaves for school and the other when she returns.

For years, there’s only been one passenger waiting at the Kami-Shirataki train station in the northernmost island of Hokkaido, Japan: A high-school girl, on her way to class. The train stops there only twice a day—once to pick up the girl and again to drop her off after the school day is over.

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It sounds like a Hayao Miyazaki film. But according to CCTV News, it was a decision that Japan Railways—the group that operates the country’s railway network—made more than three years ago.

At that time, ridership at the Kami-Shirataki station had dramatically fallen because of its remote location, and freight service had ended there as well. Japan Railways was getting ready to shut the station down for good—until they noticed that it was still being used every day by the high-schooler. So they decided to keep the station open for her until she graduates. The company’s even adjusted the train’s timetable according to the girl’s schedule. The unnamed girl is expected to graduate this March, which is when the station will finally be closed.


People are tipping their hats to the Japanese government for making education a top priority. “Why should I not want to die for a country like this when the government is ready to go an extra mile just for me,” one commenter wrote on CCTV’s Facebook page. “This is the meaning of good governance penetrating right to the grassroot level. Every citizen matters. No Child left behind!”

Others, like the creator behind this YouTube video, grieve over the struggling railways of rural Japan. With the country’s record-low birthrate, aging population, and the threat of losing a third of its population by 2060, Japan faces a number of crises including a surplus of vacant housing and a shrinking workforce. The nation’s railroad system is being hit by these shifts.

Japan’s impressively efficient high-speed rails have continued to expand to the outskirts of the country, rendering many of Japan’s older, low-tech railways obsolete. Kami-Shirataki station, for example, sits in the town of Engaru in the rural part of Hokkaido, which lost at least 20 rail lines in the past few decades, according to Fortune.

But if this story of a young girl and her special connection to the Kami-Shiratki station is any indicator, Japan’s disappearing rural railroads will be remembered for their service to even the most remote parts of the country.

http://www.citylab.com/commute/2016...tation-running-for-just-one-passenger/423273/
 

harimau

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What an awesome first world garmen!

PAP you die your own problem!

They still dun get it!
 

singveld

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Isn't it cheaper to hire a taxi to pick her up/from to school. Heart what heart, that is stupidity, you have to calculate the cost to the country, the people paid for her ride, resource are limited. Do you know the fuel cost to power a whole train to take one passenger. The damage to the environment and nature.
 

Cerebral

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Isn't it cheaper to hire a taxi to pick her up/from to school. Heart what heart, that is stupidity, you have to calculate the cost to the country, the people paid for her ride, resource are limited. Do you know the fuel cost to power a whole train to take one passenger. The damage to the environment and nature.

Taxi is private and train is public. Plus we do not know the actual distance of the ride. Have you tried taking taxi in Japan before?
 

kezgtree

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Isn't it cheaper to hire a taxi to pick her up/from to school. Heart what heart, that is stupidity, you have to calculate the cost to the country, the people paid for her ride, resource are limited. Do you know the fuel cost to power a whole train to take one passenger. The damage to the environment and nature.


...this is what happen when Pap is not incharge....LOL
 

singveld

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Taxi is private and train is public. Plus we do not know the actual distance of the ride. Have you tried taking taxi in Japan before?

i dun need to know how far. 100% it is cheaper with the taxi, this is common sense.
 

syed putra

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In japan, they offer the same 5 star service to everyone. In sinkapore, only to those who check into rafffles or shangri-la.
 

chongpangchixwings

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Isn't it cheaper to hire a taxi to pick her up/from to school. Heart what heart, that is stupidity, you have to calculate the cost to the country, the people paid for her ride, resource are limited. Do you know the fuel cost to power a whole train to take one passenger. The damage to the environment and nature.

Its cheaper to relocate the girl's family to near where the school is but let them also keep the family home.
 

Cerebral

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i dun need to know how far. 100% it is cheaper with the taxi, this is common sense.

Taxi is private and you pay retail rate while train you pay cost of fuel and the staff only. Station and tracks are fixed costs and probably already amortised. The train could be a single carriage only whic minimises fuel cost. Train's electricity is on block rates and probably cheaper. The jury is still out if taxi is cheaper
 
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