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Also the "faster for everyone" as a goal ignores that people that will go faster with this system is people that were in no big rush to begin with (so they took
by narag 11y ago
Also the "faster for everyone" as a goal ignores that people that will go faster with this system is people that were in no big rush to begin with (so they took the right side), while people that wanted to go faster now can't.
You take away something that some people wanted to give the rest something nobody asked for.
- jschwartzi 11y agoBut the metric is overall throughput, not latency. If they had bothered to characterize latency then that conclusion would probably follow. Since they characterized throughput instead, they optimized throughput at the expense of latency.
- MaysonL 11y agoConsider those rushing left-side walkers: with left-side walking in effect, at peak times, they may have to wait a few minutes at the bottom of the escalator to get on, while their walking will save them 30 seconds on the trip up. Not worth it. 16,220 per hour, versus 12,745.