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They will need to improve the platform passenger flow to make such possible. As it is, stations such as Silver Spring lack stairs, leading to queues on the platform after a train unloads. I see similar choking at large downtown stations.
I think WMATA is making this out to be a bigger deal then it really is. More trains running at closer headways would spread the loads more evenly resulting in shorter exit queues.
FYI: The north entrance at Silver Spring is not original to when the station opened on 02 06 1978, it was added at a later date.
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bit offtopic but the pedestrian tunnel studies got me wondering...
why is there a metro center station, then gallery place-Chinatown station? they are so close to each other - they could have moved the red line platform right between the two and create one giant metro center-Chinatown station. the pedestrian tunnel would have "existed" already by the virtue of having all platforms link together.
2 reasons, the 2 stations are to far apart and there is an S curve between the stations.
Back when the passenger boarding studies were done in the 1960s Gallery Place was predicted to be a minor transfer station. That's why the platforms in Gallery Place are not as wide as the platforms in Metro Center.
No one had a clue that Abe Pollin would build an arena on top of the station 20 years later. The planners back then in envisioned an arena on the northeast corner of North Capitol and H Street NE. That why the H Street tunnel from the north mezzanine of Union Station was built.
They will need to improve the platform passenger flow to make such possible. As it is, stations such as Silver Spring lack stairs, leading to queues on the platform after a train unloads. I see similar choking at large downtown stations.
I think WMATA is making this out to be a bigger deal then it really is. More trains running at closer headways would spread the loads more evenly resulting in shorter exit queues.
FYI: The north entrance at Silver Spring is not original to when the station opened on 02 06 1978, it was added at a later date.
"asdf"
bit offtopic but the pedestrian tunnel studies got me wondering...
why is there a metro center station, then gallery place-Chinatown station? they are so close to each other - they could have moved the red line platform right between the two and create one giant metro center-Chinatown station. the pedestrian tunnel would have "existed" already by the virtue of having all platforms link together.
2 reasons, the 2 stations are to far apart and there is an S curve between the stations.
Back when the passenger boarding studies were done in the 1960s Gallery Place was predicted to be a minor transfer station. That's why the platforms in Gallery Place are not as wide as the platforms in Metro Center.
No one had a clue that Abe Pollin would build an arena on top of the station 20 years later. The planners back then in envisioned an arena on the northeast corner of North Capitol and H Street NE. That why the H Street tunnel from the north mezzanine of Union Station was built.
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