Yep. You may get away with sardine cans in Europe but not here.

Regards,

> On 22 Mar 2019, at 08:20, Matthew Geier matthew@...> wrote:

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>> On 22/3/19 9:11 am, Prescott wrote:

>> I've no doubt that better performance can be wrung out of the double decks but the fact is that no high capacity mass transit railway in the world uses them for good reason. Even the much discussed RER Line A in Paris struggles to throughput more than 25 trains and hour and that's with automated driving, the attendant concentrating on the doors/dwells and three doors per side per car. The Sydney double decks also won't fill properly because of their lack of doors and unwillingness of people to move away from the doors because they don't want to get trapped inside when they want to get out. Human nature defies theory!

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> So your answer is to use trains that are uncomfortable to ride and stop people from switching to using their own cars by making sure there is no where to park them or the road are deliberately built with pinch points to discourage car use ?

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> This fixation on high standee trains for commuting is a gift to the toll road operators IMHO.

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