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Originally Posted by frinkprof
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?
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Calgary Transit is really embracing the CPTED (crime prevention through environment design) idea. You can really see it when you examine the West LRT and the re-design of Chinook station. It was likely something taken into consideration when choosing seat design, although increased standing room probably played a bigger factor.