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| nctnico:
I think you don't use the train that often. Try to move from cart to cart when the train is full. Getting to the door a few meters away is already a challenge. |
| coppice:
--- Quote from: Bud on August 24, 2019, 06:21:05 am ---please tell me this was not Musk's idea :D --- End quote --- Not unless Musk is about 100 years older than he looks. The idea of using feeders trains is old. Also, the idea of reasonably quick powered pedestrian walkways, using several side by side walkways, each 2 or 3kph faster than the next, is old. |
| nctnico:
--- Quote from: coppice on August 24, 2019, 11:37:47 am --- --- Quote from: Bud on August 24, 2019, 06:21:05 am ---please tell me this was not Musk's idea :D --- End quote --- Not unless Musk is about 100 years older than he looks. The idea of using feeders trains is old. Also, the idea of reasonably quick powered pedestrian walkways, using several side by side walkways, each 2 or 3kph faster than the next, is old. --- End quote --- But that doesn't say the idea can't be done. In some French cities you'll find trams fed from a center track. That idea has been invented over 100 years ago as well. |
| soldar:
--- Quote from: nctnico on August 24, 2019, 11:22:01 am --- I think you don't use the train that often. Try to move from cart to cart when the train is full. Getting to the door a few meters away is already a challenge. --- End quote --- I don't know what trains you use and in what country. Sounds like India or Pakistan and, very definitely, not high speed. I have used what they call "medium speed" trains (>200 Km/h) in China and everybody is seated and the aisles are clear and I have walked the length of the train without any problem. Same thing with high speed trains in Spain. Nobody is standing. We are not talking about the city metro here. I can super-definitely guarantee there are no passengers standing in the Hong-Kong to Peking high speed train. Even on regular trains in China there are no "standing tickets". Everyone gets a seat. People might be standing if they feel like it but will definitely get out of the way for people who need to move. I have plenty of photos of Chinese trains and have posted a few on this board. I dunno. Maybe we are talking about different countries. |
| nctnico:
--- Quote from: soldar on August 24, 2019, 12:10:33 pm --- --- Quote from: nctnico on August 24, 2019, 11:22:01 am --- I think you don't use the train that often. Try to move from cart to cart when the train is full. Getting to the door a few meters away is already a challenge. --- End quote --- I don't know what trains you use and in what country. Sounds like India or Pakistan and, very definitely, not high speed. I have used what they call "medium speed" trains (>200 Km/h) in China and everybody is seated and the aisles are clear and I have walked the length of the train without any problem. Same thing with high speed trains in Spain. Nobody is standing. We are not talking about the city metro here. --- End quote --- But that works for as long as people enter through the side doors and have a reserved seat. In case of selling tickets without reserved seats people may have to stand. Also if you are going to attach / detach carts from the back or front of the train (which is more likely a scenario with unreserved seats) you'll get a lot of traffic inside the train in opposite directions anyway. |
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