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Posted by Steamdriven on Sat Oct 24 15:47:54 2020, in response to Re: MYA could approve massive service cuts, posted by Michael549 on Sat Oct 24 12:02:11 2020. Not when you have extra trains. With a sharp drop in ridership, fewer trains are needed.As a thought exercise: Take only the trains which are under-used (say, under 40% full, if running at pre-virus frequencies), and split them. Now you have twice the number of half-trains, which is more half-trains than the minimum needed to address the over-capacity. But you still have some (let’s say, 2/3rd of the fleet) in full trains for the peak of rush hour. Thus: There’s no need to constantly split and combine trains, because you have more than enough equipment. That wasn’t the case when the system was stuffed to puking at peak hours, it is the case now. |
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