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Re: Some Subways Found Packed Past Capacity |
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Posted by Wado MP73 on Wed Jul 4 09:28:44 2007, in response to Re: Some Subways Found Packed Past Capacity, posted by David Fairthorne on Tue Jul 3 15:44:15 2007. Then all Tozai metro trains would terminate at Nakano, and only the Chuo local would serve stations between Nakano and Mitaka.Most Chuo rapids make those local stops too, thanks to the political powers at Koenji, Asagaya and Nishi-Ogikubo. So, people will get on the Chuo rapid, instead of the local of which half of them won't take them to Shinjuku. The awkward platform layout of Nakano is no help either. They are almost no useful across the platform transfers! The Tozai is only good for people working near Otemachi or the financial district at Nihombashi. A big chunk of commuters from the West now work at Shinjuku or somewhere on the Western part of Yamanote line. This is quite different from the days the Tozai line was being built. Back then, the sole CBD was on the east side and Shinjuku's high-rise business centre was still a water treatment plant. A lot of people who work at Otemachi and Nihombashi comes from the other end of the Tozai line and that eastern part is very crowded. There has been talk of closing down Takadanobaba - Nakano of the Tozai line and divert it to a through service on the Seibu Shinjuku line but I believe that ended with just a few studies. |
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