02-25-2016, 04:29 PM
(02-25-2016, 03:37 PM)Canard Wrote: Although it could be that trains will dwell for 15 minutes, so one will arrive on Platform 1, and the train sitting idle on Platform 2 then departs. Then the next train arrives on 2, and 1 departs.
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking is plausible. But is that really what they've planned for?
I guess it is, because when doing cost-reduction, the second platform at Conestoga Mall would have been the first thing I cut. Vancouver's Canada Line has only one set of tracks and one platform at the terminal station at Richmond-Brighouse, a result of cost saving on that line.
Maybe the second platform will be unloading only? i.e. for trains going out of service? Seems plausible... but a lot more work than just telling the driver to make a PA announcement.