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Posted by Sand Box John on Sun Jul 25 22:20:16 2010, in response to Re: WMATA: 7k cars are not composed of 2 married pairs, posted by Sand Box John on Sun Jul 25 20:45:29 2010. I'm glad to hear they are staying with transverse seating. I never liked longitudinal seating. People spread out so much on longitudinal seats. You see less of that with two-person benches (at least I have).There are many that are absolutely convinced that longitudinal seating will solve most metrorail capacity problem. Others believe WMATA needs to build a new east west route across the urban core to separate the Orange from the Blue line. Never mind that fact that the signaling and train control system is not anywhere near being exploited to its full design specification. Today the advertised number of train pre hour during peak on the trunk parts of the system is 20, the design specification allows for 40. The two things that prevent WMATA from running 8 car trains 40 times per hour is rolling stock in sufficient numbers and substations that can put the required amount of kilowatts into the third to run all those trains. John in the sand box of Maryland's eastern shore. |
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