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Re: WMATA sank into crisis despite decades of warnings |
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Posted by Steamdriven on Wed Apr 27 14:51:08 2016, in response to Re: WMATA sank into crisis despite decades of warnings, posted by Jackson Park B Train on Wed Apr 27 11:32:42 2016. True. As a rider, I wouldn't like the 20 min off-rush headways, but if the trains are mostly empty at 20 min (I don't know if this is the case) there's not much case to make it 10.Elimination the "driver" who has no actual job to do would be good for a savings. Maybe enough to decrease off hours headways. With BART's automation, perhaps there's an easy way to split trains for off-hour use. Maybe the uncoupling could be done by an automated robo-device in the yard (pretty simple robot, it would run on a small guideway). The train could then pull itself, say, ten feet away to test the coupling/uncoupling. With no "driver", that un/coupling is now done, that was it. |
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