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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Chaplainmonster "{B} I'd really like to see the heavy passenger rail option mentioned in Mr Klepper's analysis manage to board 80,000 passengers an hour through a single point of entry. Just envisioning the logistics of trying to empty a sports stadium in 60 minutes with everyone exiting in an orderly path in the same direction, sorting their change to buy a ticket, then finding a seat, challenges believability. " Yep was done every year with the ARMY/NAVY Game in the 1940s...Pennsy did it I believe.. [/quote] You don't understand. the figure cited is some "flying mile" type optimized number, where the passengers were no doubt loaded at various and sundry points , taking well over an hour, and then paraded past one point for an optimal result.....best ;possible reading SET UP, in other words. So,lets do the same for cars, put 5 people in 100,000 cars, line them up bumper to bumper, give them a flying start, and then see how many of them can speed past one measuring point on the highway over an hour, and use that figure for the "auto" number. i guarantee you they didn't load, then transport 80,000 people over the same pair of rails, all in 60 minutes time. getting 80,000 people all onto the train in one hour would be Herculean, all by itself
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