Re:Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Wins Chicago Airport High-Speed Tr...
by spiralx on Thursday June 14, 2018 @12:48PM
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The Victoria Line in London runs at 36 trains per hour at peak, one every 100 seconds. Station dwell times are already a limiting factor at this point, and having separate load/unload platforms would provide only a small decrease in dwell time as you'd need to open the unload doors before the loading doors to prevent people just exiting the wrong side.
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Re:Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Wins Chicago Airport High-Speed Tr...
by Retric on Thursday June 14, 2018 @01:23PM
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You can have multiple platforms and send trains to each not just separate load/unload platforms. This was very common with passenger trains as boarding times could extend for long periods. Even when it was a single line for loading and unloading they would normally have a bypass line to avoid the station.
Re:Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Wins Chicago Airport High-Speed Tr...
by spiralx on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @09:24AM
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> You can have multiple platforms and send trains to each not just separate load/unload platforms.
Sure, but we're talking about subway networks underneath major metropolises, and adding extra tunnels and platforms is basically as expensive as digging a whole new line - when it is even possible due to space or geological constraints.