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What near the metro should mean: gate to platform, not station to station
A metro commute has at least five parts. Here is how to add them up before you trust a walking time.
27 October 2026 · 6 min read · Imperibuild
The five parts of a metro trip
Gate to station entrance. Entrance to platform. The wait. The ride, with any interchange. Exit to your desk. A claim usually covers one of them.
The wait is set by the timetable
If trains run every eight minutes at your hour, you wait about four on average. Imperibuild uses half the published headway unless the operator publishes exact departures.
Entrances matter
Large stations have several entrances, and the nearest may be on the far side of a highway or closed at some hours. We measure to an entrance you can actually use.
Is the station open
Check the status of the line on the implementing agency's own website before counting it at all.
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