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Posted by Wado MP73 on Thu Jul 5 17:04:02 2007, in response to Re: Tokyo (Re: Some Subways Found Packed Past Capacity), posted by David Fairthorne on Thu Jul 5 15:09:14 2007. I think there are some important buildings near the Marunouchi line, about equidistant from the two stations.Mostly shops, department stores, restaurants. 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. There's no space for sidings west of the station although there is a yard east of the station. And since an almost equal number of trains terminates at Nakano from both Tozai line and westbound Chuo local, it will be a big mess of trains crossing in front of others even if sidings on the west were possible. It has been suggested many times that the through running should be done with it, terminating all Tozai line trains at Nakano (using track 3 & 4, I guess) and make all Chuo local run to Mitaka so people make more use of the Chuo local. I remember one other plan where track 6 would be lifted one and a half level above the current tracks and the tracks below some how re-configured. |
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