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Originally Posted by Reecemartin
The 15,000 pphpd figure is very unrealistic given how crowded stations already are. These figures are all very much inflated (as usual with these type of projects) simply making the trains longer and running them more frequently is going to be useless. If a train takes 30 seconds (thats fast) to dwell and the platform takes 30 seconds to clear (also fast) then we will have constantly crowded platforms at 2 min frequencies. The figures that everyone loves to run around with are just like fuel efficiency measures, absolutely unrealistic best case scenarios.
The multiple entrance exit point is just silly. Every other city has them the only reason we don't is so that our toy train could be open for the olympics and fit in the budget.
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there would be less crowds at station if trains came 2x as much. there wouldn't be 3 mins of people waiting, there would be 1.5 mins of people waiting.
no, that isn't the reason why the Canada-Line has 1 big entrance vs many smaller ones. it really does to do with safety/security and funnelling people into 1 entrance/exit. doesn't matter if you believe in it or not, it was tried at Stadium Station and it was filled with sand. it was also tried in Surrey and it was closed up as well. before the Canada-Line was built, the multiple entrances/exit idea had already been pretty much abandoned.
it would be dumb to expand Oakrdige to 80m long... all the other platforms are 40-50m. the canopy has nothing to do with the station, that is just architectural for the project.