Flamingo
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This point is irrelevant as lateness isn't like that. You can't add together the lateness of several people and get some number that has any meaning in reality so the aim should be to minimise the delay to an individual. I'm not less or more late if there are fewer or more people on my train, so it is better to delay a train of 500 people by three minutes if it saves a single person an hour.
The law of averages says that the more people delayed, the greater the chance a number of them will be seriously inconvenienced.
Some days it might not be important - some days it might.