11-22-2017, 09:33 AM
(11-21-2017, 02:22 PM)ijmorlan Wrote:(11-20-2017, 11:10 PM)Canard Wrote: ert86: Please see the Project Agreement for the explanation of the allocation of LRV’s for service:
http://rapidtransit.regionofwaterloo.ca/...7RFPV3.pdf
Is there confusion about timeline? My recollection is that 12 LRVs (+ 2 spare) is sufficient for opening-day schedules, but there are projected future schedules showing more service that involve additional vehicles.
Personally I don’t think they should be running two-vehicle trains until the service is running at least once every 5 minutes, and even that isn’t really very frequent for mass transit. It wouldn’t be unreasonable to reserve the two-vehicle running for 3 minute service.
I think the issue with every 5 minutes or 3 minutes is disruption of traffic. If you think of the Courtland(Fairway) rail crossing, you'd basically see a train every 90 seconds (1 in either direction every 3 minutes). I think 7 minutes is good for our region.
I believe in Toronto the headway for the subways is 140 seconds during peak time, for reference.