Only a monopoly like Metra could get away with what Metra invented and calls a train waiting around on the tracks a scheduled delay.
Every day on many of their train schedules, Metra trains wait for other Metra trains to clear the tracks. This is because in some areas that Metra services there are only single tracks leading to and from those areas. It just doesn't seem right that there is something called a scheduled delay. Back when they scheduled trains to leave and arrived at a certain times how about holding back a train a few more minutes at the starting station so there is never a delay.
A few minutes a day delay isn't such a bad thing, but when I think of those people who have been taking the train most of their lives those minutes are now counted by wasted hours.
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