01-03-2020, 02:17 PM
(01-03-2020, 01:13 PM)timc Wrote: The thing about five minute headways is that it starts to get nasty for traffic at crossings. At a five minute headway, there is an average of 2.5 minutes between trains.
I always hear this, even here, and I don't get it. If we have the ridership to justify a rain every 5 minutes (or every 3 minutes)...that's 250 people per train, then that justifies keeping those crossings down...if it was an intersecting road, with cars on it, we would keep the traffic signals green for far longer to clear the traffic jam...and there wouldn't even be discussion about that, but somehow because it's people on a train, that's a reason to reduce service on the intersecting road?