Sure--and why shouldn't a train with all those features (assuming compatible infrastructure!) run through a subway tunnel?pic.twitter.com/a6nFTnOUwX
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I think part of the reason we're talking past each other here is that you're more focused on the specifics surrounding London's network while I'm trying to make generalizations for rail anywhere in the world...
Perhaps. The rest of the UK has overcrowding problems but more easily solvable with investment. And I'm not that familiar with other systems, except maybe Paris.
Certainly I'm probably arguing from a "we are where we are" viewpoint. If we were building the Tube now we'd probably build it like Crossrail. But we have what we have.
Right--and that's what I'm trying to get at wrt Boston: "if we were building the T now, we'd probably build it like Tokyo Metro, so let's take steps to make the T more like Tokyo Metro"
But Boston already has the T and it's not like Tokyo Metro. (It also felt quite run down when I was on it.)
Not sure how this contradicts anything I said in prev tweet
The T is obviously different from Tokyo Metro or it would be nonsensical to talk about making it more like Tokyo Metro
"If we were building the Tube now we'd probably build it like Crossrail" means there is a convergence in form between urban and suburban rail, but that this wasn't known at the time the former was built. Now that we DO know, we build the latter, & retrofit the former accordingly
I suspect it's too difficult to retrofit the Tube, and particularly the Paris Métro. Or the T for that matter.
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