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Originally Posted by freeweed
This seems to be the common perception, but I'll be honest - I find the 7th Ave performance is pretty damned good, all things considered. Yes, it could be better. Yes, sometimes you wait for lights. But I find most of the "waiting" time seems to be people holding doors, pedestrians crossing against the lights, and just the stops in general. The only really bad times are when the entire line gets backed up due to something happening outside of the core (broken train, etc).
I dunno. It just doesn't seem to be the "crawl" that people describe. I've been using the train to do some inter-downtown trips again lately (getting too lazy to walk and often short on time) and I find it's ridiculously fast. Seems to get up to 30-40km/h between stations, which is as fast as a subway would go given the short separations.
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I think the main problem is that these bottlenecks are exacerbated by the issues you mention. You get 2-3 people in a row holding the doors and forcing themselves onto the train, a pedestrian crossing against the lights, and then the entire train has to wait for the next light.
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