rhodiecub2 wrote:One more question regarding the 3rd track from Community College to Wellington. If they ever did set this up for use of an express track, which track would be used for the express track in the am rush hour and the pm rush hour?
I believe he initial plan wasn't for a specific track to be the express track, but rather to have the flexibility to run either an express or a local train on either track. That's why all stations had platforms for all 3 tracks.
Nowadays, if the T planned on actually running express trains (which would be pointless, as I've explained previously. You could skip Community College and maybe Assembly, but the state and developers would balk at trains skipping the brand new, expensive station. If you're only skipping one or two stations, there's no real point. You'd save people maybe a minute or two of travel time. The triple-tracking was a legacy of the original plan to go out to Reading, which would have made express trains more necessary.), if they wanted to use separate tracks for express/local trains, they'd have to use the easternmost track for express trains in the PM peak (no usable platform at Assembly or Community College), and the middle track for locals. In the AM peak, same thing, easternmost track for expresses, which would be a nightmare to dispatch.
So in short, it ain't gonna happen.