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Originally Posted by officedweller
If you short-turn trains from the existing service levels, you'd be reducing capacity on the southern parts of the lines which are already crowded at peak times.
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You'd only be reducing capacity if the line was already running trains every 3 minutes south of the short turn point. I don't think that's the case, is it?
If you ADD short turning trains that run every 90 seconds between Broadway and downtown, then you don't affect running the capacity of the trains running at 180 seconds or less capacity south of that.
You limit future capacity, it's true. But you're not reducing the service you already provide. And if the bottleneck in capacity is really between Broadway and downtown, then that's where you need to add the extra capacity.
Yes, enough additional trains to run the entire line at maximum capacity would be great. But until that happens a stopgap measure is better than nothing.
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Originally Posted by officedweller
forcing everybody out at Oakridge adds unnecessary confusion, so short-turning should probably be the absolute last resort.
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Nobody will be forced off their train, they just have to board the correct train for their destination - same as they need to do now when choosing between trains heading toward Richmond Centre vs. the airport.
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