11-22-2017, 10:26 AM
(11-22-2017, 09:33 AM)jeffster Wrote:(11-21-2017, 02:22 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: 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.
I really hate that argument. If there's justification for running a train every 3 minutes, then those people *should* have priority over traffic. If those people were instead in cars, then you'd really see traffic disruption.
When framed this way, I go buy a car.