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Originally Posted by meanmachine13
I work for Calgary Transit, however my post should not reflect on CT as an organization and I am not posting in an official manner by any means.
1) I highly doubt they will ever go back to Transverse seating, simply because it is a crime prevention measure. The transverse seating allows people to become trapped with very little to no escape route.
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I doubt it would be for reasons of crime prevention/management. Other cites are still implementing transverse seating patterns. These cities would have comparable or worse crime problems than Calgary. Nevertheless, the properties of the different seating patterns are true and they apply to the more-important-to-Calgary issues of access, egress, passenger flow and capacity.
Rest of your points are more on-the-mark and in-line with the arguments I've read/heard for and against the various options.
To everyone:
Regarding the pole placement, what about an option of keeping the poles (3 pronged or just regular) in the aisles and not ones the running up from the seats. Basically the reverse of what bizaro86 said. Is that a viable option, that there just be less poles in general? I guess what I'm asking is, if we acknowledge that both the number of poles is a problem, and that the placement of them is also a problem, which is the bigger problem to you?