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Am Sun, 9 Nov 2008 06:35:34 UTC,  schrieb Greg Gritton 
<gregnada@gmail.com>  auf misc.transport.rail.americas :

> From the description of "Concourses"
> in "Engineering Criteria":  "Concourses may be one or more
> areas where passengers walk to or from trains or queue
> in anticipation of boarding trains.  Furthermore, if boarding
> queue areas for many tracks are employed, a concourse
> should have adequate depth and length to accommodate
> approximately seventy five percent of the normal peak
> passenger count for each train."

  This is a completely unnecessary complication. Boarding a train 
should not be reduced to procedures which might be necessary for 
airplanes, where passengers have to wait in a boarding lounge until 
boarding the plane together. Passengers should be able to wait for the
train on the platform, and not be held back in some concourse until 
the train stops. This would prolong stop times to the 10 to 20 minutes
of the Transsiberian trains, and thus slow down a train which then is 
no longer a high speed train. 

  I admired the Japanese Shinkansen stations, where the doors of the 
trains would be marked on the platform, so that people could queue 
right at those places where the would enter the car where their 
reserved place would be located. 

  This is something California HSR should strive for. 

  The passenger exchange at some intermediate station could thus be 
done in two minutes or even less. 


Cheers, 
L.W.

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