Urban transit done right is 3, 7, 10. Suburban transit done well is 5, 5, 4. Inter-city transit is 8, 1, 3 by design. And since everything is slow and also MUST carry a ton of people, that requires density (which then let you have lower headways) and short distances.
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but regardless I'm not talking about how C*ltrain fucks things up I'm talking about actual high frequency service on a mixed service pattern on a mostly-or-entirely two-track line, which I have observed in Japan
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RIght, but I was at the station that got screwed because of how the express trains stacked up coming out of SF. They're leaving SF pretty constantly, and the only way to not have intersections was to hit me 8 and 52 minutes apart. Burlingame AM, headed south, 2017 schedule.
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route is probably too long not to have a few stations with extra platforms for overtakes
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They *do* have that at various places along the route, they just didn't have it at my station and the 3 stations immediately south (AKA downtown San Mateo, which cannot be widened to 4 tracks, and the I-380 bridge).
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not necessary at every station tho--at this point I'm back to suspecting sheer incompetence rather than physical limitations
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I need to find the cite (on the caltrain-hsr blog), but basically yeah, they're not allowed to have wheelchair boarding ramps without a gap, that massively increases dwell times like so. https://caltrain-hsr.blogspot.com/2016/05/caltrain-has-dwell-time-problem.html …
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