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Originally Posted by bizaro86
28 seems like not very many to me.
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It doesn't, does it? ~85% availability is pretty standard, and assuming initial operations are with 3-car trains, that gives 8 consists at peak. It could be as few as 2 car trains in operation at first, which would give 12 consists. Of course, these could be "married pairs" where each unit is much longer than our current units.
It may be that this vehicle purchase assumes the downtown tunnel won't be operational at first, and an option for more will be executed once that is confirmed.
I don't know for sure, just some possible reasons that come to mind.