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Originally Posted by iamrobk
While I think they should run them east of 30th,
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why, though? it's ridiculous that one of the busiest lines (if not *the* busiest line) has no stations on west market until 30th street, and that people have to transfer to a trolley, which has less capacity, to get anywhere between 15th-30th.
the trolleys' duplicate service might be ok to take some of the excess from the MFL if it didn't prohibit MFL service where it is needed most. but it is back-assward as currently configured: west market = central business district, but is served by low-capacity trolleys instead of the high capacity MFL. if you could have both, economically, then fine, but if you can't, then it makes more sense to eliminate the lower capacity lines in favor of the high capacity one. and it could be done relatively cheaply, all you'd have to do is reconfigure the platforms at two existing stations.