Personally its not the slowness that I mind so much. I spent a week in Japan and was never bothered by their train system times and whatnot.<p>The thing that really grinds my gears about BART is that every freaking time in their time table is +&#x2F;- 5 minutes. I can&#x27;t plan any sort of schedule around it to save my life, and thus I personally feel that I waste a ton of time waiting around for the next train. I never felt that in Japan. Every transfer and connection was exactly on time and there were plenty of trains where I was never sitting around waiting 20 minutes because I <i>just</i> missed the BART.