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This is broadly speaking not true at all. NYC's train system currently runs far below its physical capacity, mostly because of old switching technology. E.g. P
by avn2109 10y ago
This is broadly speaking not true at all. NYC's train system currently runs far below its physical capacity, mostly because of old switching technology.
E.g. Paris steadily runs a train every couple minutes on many lines with no problems, and we could too after deploying switching technology improvements.
And the only pedestrian sidewalk I've ever seen at gridlocked capacity is Rockefeller center in Christmastime.
- chris_7 10y agoParis runs smaller trains at greater frequency (especially on weekends), and it's so much better. I wish we'd run G train-sized trains on the weekends, twice as frequently. Also, merging LIRR and NJT and through-running RER style is so obvious yet never brought up. Penn is not intended to be a terminal and it shows.