EU lending for Crossrail
On Sep 11, 9:53*am, "Richard J." wrote:
Bill Bolton wrote on 11 September 2009
09:20:55 ...
GazK wrote:
Don't forget the loss of capacity due to increased dwell times loading
a DD train...
Dwell time issue only become significant if the train a significant
percentage of the passenger carrying capacity of the DD train
boards/alights at every stop on the route.
In most systems that doesn't happen, with large boarding/alighting
flows only occurring at a relatively small number of stops along the
route.
This isn't "most systems". *It's London, and all 6 of the central area
stations on Crossrail (the ones where 24tph are currently planned)
*will* have heavy boarding/alighting flows.
Indeed - it's going to be busy.
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