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Originally Posted by bizaro86
Anyone have a link for this? I have no doubt the total capacity is much higher due to more room for standees, but it seems like there must be way fewer actual seats.
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Despite my best efforts to find a link to something from the manufacturer, the city, or the media reports, all that I could find was the discussion on SSP that I was remembering:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show....php?p=4876855
Basically, the current SD-160 cars have a capacity of 60, and it was estimated that the new side-seating configuration would remove 4 or 8 seats per car and would obviously increase the standing capacity by more than that.
I have found that this type of configuration works well in other, bigger cities around the world. It is a good compromise between providing plenty of seats for off-peak times, and providing standing capacity for the sardine can during rush hour.