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Why would there be higher latency? Tokyo, NYC and London all run subway trains during peak hours within 2 mins. That’s almost certainly better than what the Bo
by rhaway84773 4y ago
Why would there be higher latency?
Tokyo, NYC and London all run subway trains during peak hours within 2 mins. That’s almost certainly better than what the Boring loop achieves.
And these are subway systems. What you would run would be an autonomous light rail system with 1-2 cabins like you see running in airports all over the world.
- Laaas 4y agoThe latency is likely lower since you don't need to look for parking. Slightly off-topic: The current Tokyo subway system has the unfortunate property that it turns off between midnight (~0) and early morning (~5). The Loop thing wouldn't have this likely, but I don't understand why Tokyo does this, especially for the trains that don't have a driver.
- rippercushions 4y agoMaintenance is far easier when you don't have live trains running. If anything, NYC is an outlier for having 24 hour services, and it shows in their abysmal on-time record.
- rippercushions 4y agoIt's very, very difficult to run trains with headways of under 2 minutes (as in, under two minutes from one train closing doors to the next train closing doors). The record holder is apparently Paris Line 1 at 85 seconds during peak hours, and some lines of the Moscow Metro do 90 seconds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headway