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Originally Posted by frinkprof
All of this points to the need for capacity improvements, the least of which being the 8th Avenue Subway. It would solve all of the issues discussed above. 4 car trains will help, but is ultimately a medium-term solution.
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Thanks for the explanation. I must be missing it but why would a subway do better than 7 Ave? Is it because the trains would no longer have to wait at intersections? I thought that the reasons you list above for delays and reasons for no short-turning would be the same above and underground.
Your post gave me a headache imagining how some transit planner had to run schedules, numbers, and spatial reasoning to figure out how many trains can go through downtown and still have short-turn trains. Does Calgary Transit have one of those awesome lights-on-the-wall train planning office like Walter Matthau's (and Denzel in the new one) character did in Pelham 123? I think I watch too many movies.