Re:Tokyo's oldest train line – in pictures
by sofixa on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @02:32AM
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Oh of course, it's not even in the same league with extremely wasteful highways.
My point was just that tracks have limits too and at some point you need to add more of them / add more train cars / add new lines.
This can be seen in Paris where RER A was built in part to decongest line 1, which then resulted in both being heavily congested (RER A is one the most heavily used commuter rail line in Europe and the whole world). This led to the creation of line 14 to decongest the A and 1 inside of Paris, but it got congested too, so now there's also the RER E to decongest the 1, 14, A and B by taking over some trips between destinations that would have required doing a change 14+A or B+A.
My point was just that tracks have limits too and at some point you need to add more of them / add more train cars / add new lines.
This can be seen in Paris where RER A was built in part to decongest line 1, which then resulted in both being heavily congested (RER A is one the most heavily used commuter rail line in Europe and the whole world). This led to the creation of line 14 to decongest the A and 1 inside of Paris, but it got congested too, so now there's also the RER E to decongest the 1, 14, A and B by taking over some trips between destinations that would have required doing a change 14+A or B+A.