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If you look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_York_City_Subway_services#Trains_per_hour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_York_City_Subwa
by nerfhammer 9y ago
If you look here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_York_City_Subway_services#Trains_per_hour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_York_City_Subway_s...
The lines with the same colors run on top of each other in Manhattan so you have to sum them. Supposedly the 456 does get 44/hour, counting express and local tracks together.
I agree that most lines do not have modern signaling and most do not run at 45/hour most of the time. But also you know, 24x7 and all that.
- martinald 9y agoI understand the system very well :). But you could be doing 88 per hour on the 456 or ACE if you had modern signalling. 22tph/track is really poor. If you combined that with walk through trains you could easily get a 200-300% capacity increase. There is a lot of theoretically low hanging fruit on the MTA, technically speaking. Keep in mind how screwed cities like london are which do have the theoretical max per track and no other option but to build new subways. NY doesn't have this problem, it just needs to use its assets way better and there is room for at least a decade or two of further growth.