Caltrain
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Caltrain San Jose To San Francisco
Taktfahrplan is German for tact schedule or more accurately regular interval timetable. In Switzerland
and other countries with intensive rail services it forms the basis for trains running at the same
minutes past the hour throughout the day making it easy for riders to memorize the timetable.
Caltrain has always been like most North American commuter rail operations with a schedule heavily
weighed toward the rush hours and far less frequent service between the peaks. With current ridership
at just 3200 a day(a 95% drop from the pre-pandemic level of 65,000) Caltrain is now completely revamping
its timetable effective Dec. 14th.
Essential workers who can't work from home make up the bulk of the remaining riders and Caltrain surveys
show them spread throughout the day with no surge during the peak hours. A new 68 train schedule has now
been adopted with a consistent 30 minute frequency. All trains will stop at the heaviest use stations
but lighter used stations will see every other train skip it resulting in a 60 minute frequency at those stops.
The new weekday schedule:
https://www.caltrain.com/Assets/Assets/pdfs/CT_PrinterFriendlyTimetable_12-14-2020.pdf
Trains will run every 60 minutes on the weekends(up from the present 90) and all weekend trains will
serve Tamien(as will half the weekday trains). Atherton will permanently close(last trains this weekend!).
Hillsdale remains temporarily closed with the new Hillsdale station opening early next year.
The new weekend schedules:
https://www.caltrain.com/Assets/Assets/pdfs/CT_SaturdayTT_12-14-2020.pdf
https://www.caltrain.com/Assets/Assets/pdfs/CT_SundayTT_12-14-2020.pdf
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/07/20 20:17 by milepost20.
and other countries with intensive rail services it forms the basis for trains running at the same
minutes past the hour throughout the day making it easy for riders to memorize the timetable.
Caltrain has always been like most North American commuter rail operations with a schedule heavily
weighed toward the rush hours and far less frequent service between the peaks. With current ridership
at just 3200 a day(a 95% drop from the pre-pandemic level of 65,000) Caltrain is now completely revamping
its timetable effective Dec. 14th.
Essential workers who can't work from home make up the bulk of the remaining riders and Caltrain surveys
show them spread throughout the day with no surge during the peak hours. A new 68 train schedule has now
been adopted with a consistent 30 minute frequency. All trains will stop at the heaviest use stations
but lighter used stations will see every other train skip it resulting in a 60 minute frequency at those stops.
The new weekday schedule:
https://www.caltrain.com/Assets/Assets/pdfs/CT_PrinterFriendlyTimetable_12-14-2020.pdf
Trains will run every 60 minutes on the weekends(up from the present 90) and all weekend trains will
serve Tamien(as will half the weekday trains). Atherton will permanently close(last trains this weekend!).
Hillsdale remains temporarily closed with the new Hillsdale station opening early next year.
The new weekend schedules:
https://www.caltrain.com/Assets/Assets/pdfs/CT_SaturdayTT_12-14-2020.pdf
https://www.caltrain.com/Assets/Assets/pdfs/CT_SundayTT_12-14-2020.pdf
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/07/20 20:17 by milepost20.