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Here's a pretty interesting map showing TPH (and number of train cars) in 1954 for the AM rush. I believe some lines are running fewer trains today than they we

• bobthepanda 8y ago
  The scheduled service on that map is 30TPH, although the theoretical max is 40TPH; the signalling system has never been used to that extent, mostly because the extra 30s between trains is used as contingency padding in case a train is late. The Lexington Line actually ran 30TPH at one point between the 4/5, but this has decreased because overcrowding has gotten so severe that it is now holding up trains as people struggle to enter and exit overcrowded cars. Prior to the opening of the Second Avenue Subway, the Lexington Avenue Line carried more than the transit systems of San Francisco, Chicago, and Boston combined. http://web.mta.info/capital/sas_docs/feis.htm http://web.mta.info/capital/sas_docs/feis.htm