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by District D RTC
Skip stop service is intended to:
1 - Control Crowding, if stopping patterns are chosen properly, the passengers should be equally distributed between the lines, keeping any one train from being too crowded, which as you know, can severely delay a train.
2 - Allow faster operation on the line, end to end, if you eliminate stops you eliminate dwell time and therefore realize a time savings, and affording passengers a quicker trip point-to-point.
3 - Allow trains to run more closely in areas where the stations are close togeather like between Dykeman and 242/VCP.
Skip stop is a great concept, problem is, when you have too many "all stops" too close togeather, trains loose out on all of the above...eg 168, 181, 191. Also, the larger the "skip area" the better savings you realize, example, if you skip stop everything north of 96, except HEAVY stations like 125, 137, 168, 181. As a matter of fact, now looking closely at this situation, that may be exactly why the 1/9 never was completely succesful as a skip-stop is that there are TOO many "heavy" stations all of which got "all stop" status.
A good candidate for skip-stop would be the #2, White Plains Rd line between E180 and 241, but the ridership isn't heavy enough to warrant such, especially if you were to double the headway time at some stations.....
--JSW
1 - Control Crowding, if stopping patterns are chosen properly, the passengers should be equally distributed between the lines, keeping any one train from being too crowded, which as you know, can severely delay a train.
2 - Allow faster operation on the line, end to end, if you eliminate stops you eliminate dwell time and therefore realize a time savings, and affording passengers a quicker trip point-to-point.
3 - Allow trains to run more closely in areas where the stations are close togeather like between Dykeman and 242/VCP.
Skip stop is a great concept, problem is, when you have too many "all stops" too close togeather, trains loose out on all of the above...eg 168, 181, 191. Also, the larger the "skip area" the better savings you realize, example, if you skip stop everything north of 96, except HEAVY stations like 125, 137, 168, 181. As a matter of fact, now looking closely at this situation, that may be exactly why the 1/9 never was completely succesful as a skip-stop is that there are TOO many "heavy" stations all of which got "all stop" status.
A good candidate for skip-stop would be the #2, White Plains Rd line between E180 and 241, but the ridership isn't heavy enough to warrant such, especially if you were to double the headway time at some stations.....
--JSW