Of course. That said, my #1 rule of urban policy analysis: Never compare other cities to New York in all but exceptional cases. It's an outlier on transit ridership even compared to Boston and DC that makes for a bad example.
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Replying to @NickZaiac
Well, unless comparing with London or Paris
My memory of the Boston T is that the trains were infrequent and overcrowded and the stations looked old and not in a good way.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @uncriticalsimon
That's true! Their problems stem from the city's antiquated branching system, lack of station investment, and need for a giant N-S tunnel to allow through-running. At least it mostly separates commuter and urban rail.
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Replying to @NickZaiac
Some (well
@380kmh) would say that that's a bad thing.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @uncriticalsimon @NickZaiac
yes--the separation btw urban and commuter rail is what forces the need for a single NS tunnel for regional connectivity, rather than using through-running on the subways to get four such tunnels. Ideally, commuter rail rolling stock and frequency would be similar to subway
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Replying to @380kmh @NickZaiac
I'd disagree - commuter rail needs more seats, urban rail needs more doors and standing room.
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Replying to @uncriticalsimon @NickZaiac
Beg to differ--or at least to say that the difference in seat/standing ratio and door count ought to be much less pronounced that people in the Anglosphere think
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At a bare minimum: differences in seat arrangement, standing room, and door count do not require any differences in carriage dimensions, loading gauge, power source, etc--ought to be interoperable with subways even if slightly different inside
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Replying to @380kmh @NickZaiac
Unless you have platform edge doors, when different door layouts do cause problems. Or a legacy system with a very tight loading gauge, small carriages, live rails, rubber tyres etc (as with both Paris and London).
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I think WMATA and BART were just built to be gratitutiously incompatible with everything else, mind.
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lmao, entirely true for those systems
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