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Old Posted Nov 21, 2007, 9:23 PM
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Originally Posted by RicoLance21 View Post
What is the maximum frequency an LRT tunnel can handle?

In my visionary LRT system, I have 3 lines, all use 5-car trains, each with a 5-minute frequency. I am not sure if the downtown LRT portion can handle trains passing through every 1 min 40 seconds.
The game plan is for each line to operate on three-minute headways. It is possible to run C-Trains on 90-second headways, much in the same way that it is possible to do anything except ski through a revolving door, but with Seventh Avenue barely capable even now of handling the morning and afternoon rushes with two lines on separate five-minute headways, 90 seconds will represent something of a crunch.

Hard to tell at this point whether they would build five-car metro stations from a standing start--that might be too easy for them.
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