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See, that right there is the problem with Americans. There is NO NEED for some new kind of rail car. Ordinary bi-level passenger trains with 6 cars carry ~250
by thrownaway2424 11y ago
See, that right there is the problem with Americans. There is NO NEED for some new kind of rail car. Ordinary bi-level passenger trains with 6 cars carry ~2500 people and can run on 2.5-minute headways (1000 people per minute).
- samstave 11y agoWell, to be fair the carrying capacity of Caltrain is immense, but they are slow as hell, poor coverage area and if you want to commute from the east bay simply to mountain view via Caltrain its three hours one way!!! So while technically you may be correct, they way they have been implemented here in the Bay Area, is, in my opinion, an utter failure. What's worse, is we knew they were a failure from an efficiency standpoint twenty years ago. So either we join all the agencies together and fire any schedulers they have and start from scratch. Or we find some way to do what these agencies can't.