On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 02:08:40 -0700 (PDT)
puffernutter wrote:
More trains is what moving block will provide.

The piccadilly line tried to increase the number of trains a few years ago
and it was an unmitigated disaster. Trains taking 30 mins to go from
finsbury to arnos grove (personal experience). It took about a year for
the arrogant ****s to realise their mistake so I won't hold my breath
for moving block to improve things significantly. All it needs is one
train to take longer than it should at a station and the knock on effect
will kick off.

In a perfect world, if people could be assured, through a consistent
period of reliable operation that the next train will turn up in 90
seconds, then maybe they wont cram themselves in the train in the
platform. But I suspect that behaviour will take a long time to
change.

While people don't trust for the next train to actually show up when the
board says it will this behaviour will never change.

B2003