diburning wrote: and all of the operators would need to be retrained to spot the train at a specific spot (right now, close enough is good enough as long as all the doors are on the platform).
Arlington wrote:diburning wrote: and all of the operators would need to be retrained to spot the train at a specific spot (right now, close enough is good enough as long as all the doors are on the platform).
If you need to stop precisely--with our without platform doors--you don't retrain the operator, you get a computer. With OPTO, you don't need platform doors, but stopping precisely is still good for using the video monitors and helping vision-impared users (and everyone else) line up for the doors.
When ZPTO's day comes, the savings of the driver are partly offset by the cost of the platform doors, its true, but then the platform doors get you big savings by keeping trash off the tracks, operational gains from no jumping/falling on the tracks, and the possibility of air conditioning.
Head-end View wrote:In the French news article, that Paris subway train had a huge front window, similar to New York's JFK Airport Airtrain. Hey Rob, want to take a trip to Paris?
The EGE wrote:But that's a problem not caused by OPTO, and it otherwise seems to be going well.
Bramdeisroberts wrote:The EGE wrote:But that's a problem not caused by OPTO, and it otherwise seems to be going well.
Bingo.
If we had the equipment numbers/reliability and the signalling to allow for on-peak headways of less than 10 minutes (1st-world service on the T? perish the thought!), then the crowds at Park, DTC, Kendall, and South Station would be nonissues.
Gerry6309 wrote:Bramdeisroberts wrote:The EGE wrote:But that's a problem not caused by OPTO, and it otherwise seems to be going well.
Bingo.
If we had the equipment numbers/reliability and the signalling to allow for on-peak headways of less than 10 minutes (1st-world service on the T? perish the thought!), then the crowds at Park, DTC, Kendall, and South Station would be nonissues.
Every line has an "official" headway of less than 8 minutes. Red Line is 4, 8 on each branch. Reliability of service is the greater issue. Lets increase the force of the door engines to the point where it is impossible to hold the doors open!
Bramdeisroberts wrote:Gerry6309 wrote:Bramdeisroberts wrote:The EGE wrote:But that's a problem not caused by OPTO, and it otherwise seems to be going well.
Bingo.
If we had the equipment numbers/reliability and the signalling to allow for on-peak headways of less than 10 minutes (1st-world service on the T? perish the thought!), then the crowds at Park, DTC, Kendall, and South Station would be nonissues.
Every line has an "official" headway of less than 8 minutes. Red Line is 4, 8 on each branch. Reliability of service is the greater issue. Lets increase the force of the door engines to the point where it is impossible to hold the doors open!
Hah. "Official".
Gerry6309 wrote:Bramdeisroberts wrote:Gerry6309 wrote:Bramdeisroberts wrote:The EGE wrote:But that's a problem not caused by OPTO, and it otherwise seems to be going well.
Bingo.
If we had the equipment numbers/reliability and the signalling to allow for on-peak headways of less than 10 minutes (1st-world service on the T? perish the thought!), then the crowds at Park, DTC, Kendall, and South Station would be nonissues.
Every line has an "official" headway of less than 8 minutes. Red Line is 4, 8 on each branch. Reliability of service is the greater issue. Lets increase the force of the door engines to the point where it is impossible to hold the doors open!
Hah. "Official".
All MBTA rolling stock should be painted green or yellow: Time slips and they come in bunches. Hey Mr. Tallyman...
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