Red-Purple Through Routing

During off-peak hours, why don't some red line trains simply run up to Linden, instead of making people change trains?

Only need a few cars for the purple midday trains. Red line is always 8 cars.

That said, it is brutal cold and windy on the Howard platform midwinter waiting to transfer.

Are all the platforms north of Howard long enough for an 8 car train?

Nope. I think Linden is, and any other station that's been re-done in recent years, but the trains running the Linen - Howard routing are limited to six cars.

Another reason it wouldn't work is because the current yard capacity at Linden is much too small to support that kind of operation; some equipment could end up deadheading back to Howard anyway. That said, through-routing could alleviate some of the congestion at Howard, if turning Purple line shuttles were to be removed.

I think Davis is the only other station in Evanston that can berth 8 cars...