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Originally Posted by schaalman
So certain roads in Toronto, LA, Sao Paulo, Houston, Atlanta or wherever else on the planet carry vehicular traffic which instinctively boggles simple minds?
But roads like the 401 in Toronto, Canada carry their burden of traffic in predominantly single occupied vehicles?
Consider subway systems around the world where individual lines carry that kind of volume with ease in an hour or less?
Tokyo, Moscow, Seoul, Shanghai, Bejing, NYC, Paris, Mexico City, Hong Kong, Guanzhou, London, where do I stop?
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Maybe not one hour but it's possible to get a similar daily traffic with just two tracks instead of more than a dozen of lanes.
I have the number of people traveling between two stations in Paris metro and RER.
The busiest section on two tracks in Paris is the RER A between Charles de Gaulle Etoile and la Défense with 458,118 passengers traveling between 6am and 11pm.
Note that between Charles de Gaulle Etoile and La Defense, there is also the subway line 1. There are 233,204 passengers just west of Charles de Gaulle Etoile on line 1 between 6 am and 11pm.
So that's 691,322 passengers west of Charles de Gaulle Etoile between 6am and 11pm.
It's not the busiest transit section between Chatelet-les-Halles and Gare de Lyon, there are 4 lines (8 tracks).
RER A : 383,022
Line 14 : 232,350
Line 1: 203,578
RER D (Older SNCF data): 107,743
That's 926,693 passengers east of Chatelet-les-Halles between 6am and 11pm.
Note that SNCF data are old and the traffic has risen since then.
The RER D had 520,419 passengers in my data compared to the current 615,000.