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Posted by Sand Box John on Sun Jul 6 21:28:54 2008, in response to Re: How will WMATA run 3 services on two tracks?, posted by Fine, Howard, and Fine on Sun Jul 6 20:57:06 2008. Scheduled headways on the combined blue/orange line through dowtown are as short as 2 minutes during the "orange crush" part of the morning rush (orange, orange, blue, orange, orange, blue). That's getting damn clsoe to the design headways, and reality often achieves the scheduled headway.This begs the question. During the "orange crush", as you call it, part of the morning peak are all of those trains 8 car trains? (Obviously any incident at all blows the schedule to hell when every train can see the taillights of the one in front.) I have no doubt that when something craps the bed all bets are off when it come to trying to maintain the schedule. John in the sand box of Maryland's eastern shore. |
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