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Yes, this was the sort of thing I was thinking for London. Not "express" per-se, but "missing stops" (i.e. just like what happens when stations are closed for p
by traceroute66 5y ago
Yes, this was the sort of thing I was thinking for London. Not "express" per-se, but "missing stops" (i.e. just like what happens when stations are closed for platform maintenance during normal ops).
- noneeeed 5y agoYou can definitely do that. However on something like the underground that would complicate the "turn up and go" approach that most people take to the tube if you start skipping different sets of stations on different trains. It's something that's done, but I'm not sure how well it would scale on the tube if you did it a lot. Each train would need to miss roughly the same number of stops to prevent blockages or you need more passing places. With the small gaps between many tube trains the margin of error for scheduling can be very small. I think it's one of those things that works, but the advantage for the vast majority of people would be pretty small compared to the complexity and added fragility it would introduce if you tried to do it a lot.