Tubeprune wrote:

Seating will be the same on three versions. There will be a lot less seats
than now because LU insists on having 1000mm between seats for wheelchairs
to pass between them. So, you will have to stand every day because someone
might want to have a wheelchair on the train once in the next 35 years!

I actually saw a wheelchair user (more like a powered golf buggy really)
on a Jubilee Line train yesterday. There seemed to be enough room for
him in the area by the doors; I don't understand why there has to be a
metre between the seats.

--
John Ray

TheOneKEA wrote:
Tubeprune wrote:
"TheOneKEA" wrote in message
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What sort of seats will these trains have? Presumably the stock
will all be the exact same, differing only in seating.

Seating will be the same on three versions. There will be a lot
less seats than now because LU insists on having 1000mm between
seats for wheelchairs to pass between them. So, you will have to
stand every day because someone might want to have a wheelchair
on the train once in the next 35 years!

With that kind of thinking, one might as well transfer ownership of
the fast lines from Harrow North to Moor Park, and hence to Amersham,
to Network Rail! Bucks commuters won't stand for nasty transverse
seating that crams them together like C-stock cattle; they complained
when the T stock went away and they'll complain even louder when the
A stock goes away. Not that Chiltern would mind, of course...

Have LU lots their minds? Or is it just the useless nanny-state H&S
folks pushing this rubbish?

More likely one of the benefits, sorry make that features, of PPP.

John Ray wrote:
Tubeprune wrote:

Seating will be the same on three versions. There will be a lot
less seats than now because LU insists on having 1000mm between
seats for wheelchairs to pass between them. So, you will have to
stand every day because someone might want to have a wheelchair on
the train once in the next 35 years!

I actually saw a wheelchair user (more like a powered golf buggy
really)
on a Jubilee Line train yesterday. There seemed to be enough room for
him in the area by the doors; I don't understand why there has to be a
metre between the seats.

In case s/he wanted to sit down?

"Brimstone" wrote in message
...
John Ray wrote:

I actually saw a wheelchair user (more like a
powered golf buggy really) on a Jubilee Line
train yesterday. There seemed to be enough
room for him in the area by the doors; I don't
understand why there has to be a metre
between the seats.

In case s/he wanted to sit down?

LOL.

I suspect the reason is to do with emergency evacuation.

--
John Rowland - Spamtrapped
Transport Plans for the London Area, updated 2001
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro...69/tpftla.html
A man's vehicle is a symbol of his manhood.
That's why my vehicle's the Piccadilly Line -
It's the size of a county and it comes every two and a half minutes