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Originally Posted by mykalberta
The south line currently runs every 2-6 minutes at peak times according to the CT website. What problem does a 800M subway solve? Does it allow for trains every 3 minutes? I think that adding an extra 30% capacity to every current train is going to help for a long time.
I personally think the reason alot of people want the subway is because they think that will decrease downtown traffic congestion. CT doesnt and shouldnt care about limiting traffic issues downtown as they are trying to compete for traffic into downtown. Their only reasoning with a subway should be operational and capacity concerns.
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Where does C-Train traffic back up? Where the existing lines meet at 9th St W and 3 St E. If the subway is built the existing NE-W and NW-S lines won't ever have to cross each other. Imagine how much faster the system would be if every single train on 7th Avenue was a NE-W train, and they never had to stop at 9th St W or 3rd St E to let a NW-S train into or out of downtown. That's also where the system experiences most of its failures: the switches freeze or break down.
There's also a significant problem with implementing four-car trains downtown without the subway: a 4-car train is longer than the blocks between 4th and 5th, 5th and 6th, and 6th and 7th Avenues. If a NW-bound train was stopped at 6th Ave a westbound train leaving 7th St Station would have nowhere to go because the ass-end of the NW-bound train would still be on 7th Ave...