In the early hours of the 23rd, an earthquake that registered a maximum intensity of 5-lower in Ibaraki, Tokyo, Saitama, and other areas led JR East to suspend the first trains of the day on many conventional-line sections across the Kanto region. On the thread, users traded updates on the status of individual lines like the Musashino Line and Utsunomiya Line, while also repeatedly criticizing JR East’s inspection regime, which some blamed on cost-cutting.
8/23 (Sun) 5:13 AM
TBS NEWS DIG
Here’s the latest on the earthquake’s impact on rail service. Around 2 a.m. today (the 23rd), an earthquake registering a maximum intensity of 5-lower struck Ibaraki, Tokyo, Saitama, and other areas. As a result, JR East will suspend the first trains of the day on conventional lines across many sections of the Kanto region for track inspections and other safety checks.
Source: topics.smt.docomo.ne.jp / Original article here
Watch out for flooding
Nah, bikes are the real champ
You've got two perfectly good legs, don't you?
Walk.
Wait, what?
If the Saikyo Line and Keihin-Tohoku Line are running on that stretch, no problem right?
The Keihin-Tohoku Line is stopped
The Saikyo Line runs a different route and doesn't even go to Tokyo
but in Kanto, intensity 8 has hit repeatedly on a 100-year cycle lol
What's this 'intensity 8' supposed to be?
Intensity 8 has never been observed anywhere in Japan — it doesn't even exist, lol (the Japanese seismic scale tops out at 7)
Out in the countryside, a 5-lower and trains are back to normal within the hour
Isn't the whole reason you live in Tokyo that you don't want to be out in the countryside?
Even on the morning of the Great Hanshin earthquake, the Kintetsu line was still running lol
Though only the limited expresses and locals — the regular expresses never showed up at all
You'd probably say the same thing even at a 6-lower
Though note that an AEON store literally blew up during a 6-lower quake
The shared assumption that any accident becomes the operator's fault got cemented after the AEON Mall Kumamoto incident
So everyone piled on AEON, and the result was less convenient transit
And now they're complaining recovery is too slow
That whole cycle, right there — that's Japan for you
Stopping trains to inspect over a quake this minor probably won't last — it's just for now
Money, money, money > safety, apparently
They do it because an accident ends up costing way more money than the inspection does
Tell that to the people who piled on AEON over their incident
This is on them
JR East doesn't think that far ahead — it's 100% short-term thinking, always
If they were only thinking short-term, they wouldn't bother inspecting at all
They're always cheaping out on inspections — that's exactly why that overhead-wire trouble the other day knocked things out for a whole day
They get stopped by garbage-tier trouble all the time, so don't even talk
If you're a working adult, you just walk to work when the trains stop for an earthquake, right?
That's just common sense
A competent working adult anticipates the earthquake and just stays overnight at the office
Every day
There's this thing called the Tsukuba Express, you know (a rail line built to keep running through disasters)
Sup, Sato-san (a nod to a recurring meme figure from old 5ch earthquake threads)
It's doing a partial run toward Minami-Funabashi, between Nishi-Funabashi and Minami-Funabashi
Everyone's swarming that section and it's chaos — the platform is packed
The Musashino Line is also doing a partial run between Nishi-Funabashi and Yoshikawa-minami
Not sure if any trains are making it all the way to Fuchu-Honmachi
Guess it's a silver lining that it's a day off, if anything?
I've got work though — and all the people heading to Disney ("Mouse-y," slang for Tokyo Disneyland), Makuhari, or events in Minami-Funabashi are creating a bottleneck. Total pandemonium
When you factor in the trouble it causes other people, biking isn't such a great option either
Hey, hurry up and move that flooded car out of the way lol
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Still doesn't cause as much trouble to others as those 'car scum' drivers do (a common slur for inconsiderate motorists)
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Breaking News+) thread “[Intensity 5-Lower] JR Lines in Kanto Suspend First Trains for Track Inspections After Earthquake — No Restart in Sight as of 5 AM.”
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