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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Hugh Jampton [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by TheAntiGates You ain't gonna get 80,000 people to board a train in one hour. let alone continue on to drive it past a single fixed point. [/quote] It seems to me that you are under the misaprehension that 80,000 people get on a train at point A and an hour later they are delivered to point Z. [/quote] Sorry if it looked as though I believed that. my intention was more to exploit the concept as a comparative improbability. It's clear that any such train would HAVE to board at numerous locations, spanning well beyond the parameters of the one hour time frame. My (intended) point was along the lines of '~okay, if we are going to allow these trains 3 hours to ticket and board, then stage them to speed past a single point so that we can claim rail has a capacity of 80,000 passengers per hour, then clearly we are making some optimal assumptions, to give the rail option such a huge advantage.~' Okay, THAT was my point. And I was just saying that if we factor in ticketing, change making, and boarding (all a part of the rail riding experience) then that optimized number goes way way down. Alternately, lets figure in some unrealistic variables for the auto, and see how that modes listed capacity skyrockets. Instead of assuming each car has only one occupant, lets optimize for the sake of numbers derived, lets cram 4 passengers in each car (with the driver), throw 3 more in the trunk, then stage the cars bumper to bumper, then let them get a flying mile head start to race past a single point and see what kind of contrived, albeit impressive number we can compare with. Even with the optimized conditions for the trains, 80,000 passengers/hr is a staggering figure. Lets look at that,how many passengers per train/ how many trains? Just pulling numbers out of the air, if each train holds a 1000 passengers, then we have 80 trains supposedly passing a single point, over a 60 minute period What about a cushion in between each train for safety? how long must a train capable of holding 1000 passengers be? How long will all 80 trains combined be, and how fast will they have to travel to collectively pass by a single point within an hour? Better hope UP isn't involved, they'll let each train sit waiting in a siding for well more than an hour. he original claim just doesn't seem to hold any merit.
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