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Posted by David Fairthorne on Thu Jul 5 15:09:14 2007, in response to Re: Tokyo (Re: Some Subways Found Packed Past Capacity), posted by Wado MP73 on Thu Jul 5 08:10:54 2007. Seibu Shinjuku is too far away from the Shinjuku CBD (twenty minutes walk)I can see why many people change trains at "Baba". Seibu Shinjuku is about a half mile north of the main Shinjuku station complex, but I think there are some important buildings near the Marunouchi line, about equidistant from the two stations. Also, here's what's wrong at Nakano: Given that the Chuo line tracks are paired by speed, not by direction, cross-platform interchange to or from the Chuo rapid would obviously be impossible. But at least you have a choice between two underpasses, one of which has escalators. So you have two choices of platforms for all three directions of the Chuo local/Tozai line and you never get an across the platform transfer from a train that came from Mitaka to a train turning at Nakano. That seems perverse on the face of it. In order to allow cross-platform transfers, I suppose they could use tracks 3 and 4 for eastbound local and tracks 1 and 2 for westbound local. But then terminating trains would have to stop first on track 2, then go into a siding (if there is one) before stopping again on track 3. I don't think just one terminating track would be enough. |
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