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Re:Bay Area tech boom not cause of region's problems by epicureanideal on Friday January 17, 2014 @10:09PM (#7079883)
I also wouldn't mind if they would add some extra cars so it isn't standing room only during commute hours. How hard is it to add an extra car to an existing train? Raise my fare, I'll pay not to have to be packed in like cattle.
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Re:Bay Area tech boom not cause of region's problems by encoderer on Friday January 17, 2014 @10:38PM (#7079950)
If only it worked this way. Fares are already set years in advance and BART management seems to have their own ideas on how they want to spend the limited resources they have.
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Re:Bay Area tech boom not cause of region's problems by sologoub on Friday January 17, 2014 @10:38PM (#7079952)
I'd imagine the length of the train is limited to the shortest platform it has to support. Not from SF, so not sure if there really is room for expansion.

Frequency might be another answer - run the trains closer together, but again there are limits there too.

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Re:Bay Area tech boom not cause of region's problems by prodigal_erik on Sunday January 19, 2014 @04:51AM (#7083984)
I've never seen a BART station shorter than ten cars, though many rush hour trains only use eight or nine.

I seem to remember that BART has an outdated and overwhelmed computer system which requires greater spacing between trains (and sometimes fails all the way down to manual control). At least new cars will have three doors instead of two, which should get a train out of a station faster.

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Re:Bay Area tech boom not cause of region's problems by hkmurakami on Friday January 17, 2014 @10:56PM (#7079998)
I think I've been on trains in Japan (albeit not in Tokyo) where the first two cars didn't fit on the platform, and passengers were alerted to switch cars if getting off at that station.

Not sure how well it'd work given commuter congestion, but it warrants some consideration.

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Re:Bay Area tech boom not cause of region's problems by kcorbitt on Friday January 17, 2014 @11:04PM (#7080025)
When I lived in Barcelona there were some low-traffic platforms shorter than the trains that went through them. I think the cars at the end of the train had big warning signs that they wouldn't open at station [X].
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