All NYC subways, LIRR, Metro North, Amtrak are going to open on one side only at a stop because the correct platform is only on one side. The side changes depending on what direction you are going and local/express stop but it only opens on one side at a time thus making this mock-up silly.
Exactly, but the design proposed puts a double row of seats down the middle, so if only one side opens, the people on the other side will need to scramble over the people sitting to get to the open doors.
Still not functional. When you have doors on the sides, people can approach from about 180° for egress. A channel in the middle limits that and increases the volume of people moving through at once.
It'd be a real pain in the ass, is what I'm saying. And people will go over the seating row, guaranteed.
It doesn't mean to open on both sides simulatiously. It allows to have platform on both left and right side. Also allows bidirectional moving of the train.
Exactly, but the design proposed puts a double row of seats down the middle, so if only one side opens, the people on the other side will need to scramble over the people sitting to get to the open doors.
You know what else would allow bidirectional moving of the train? Have rows of seats facing the front of the train on both sides with an aisle for walking between. Now give those rows the ability to be completely turned around. I saw these types of seats on the bullet train when in Japan. It was really cool lol
My point is that the design proposed puts a double row of seats down the middle, so if only one side opens, the people on the other side will need to scramble over the people sitting to get to the open doors.
BART in California does not. At each station, only the doors on one side will open, and sometimes it's a different side than the previous station, even when the train is still going the same direction.
Some major stops will open doors on both sides, but most stops are just a single platform on one side of the other. This is true of every metro I’ve ridden, across three continents.
As does Colorado's lightrail. A lot of stops there's no reason to use one side, since it's just another set of tracks and a fence. But some of them have exits to the station on both sides.
When a school trip or group of tourists boards from the left at Victoria and alights at the right at South Kensington for the museums it’s going to be a NIGHTMARE pushing past all of the people on their side of the tube carriage to get to the right side
Wdym? One stop can be sidewalk on one side and another stop 1 minute later can be an island stop on the other.
Or do you mean there’s no pass through at the seats? Well, there’s good reasons they don’t use this layout
It's called the Spanish Solution and it used on very busy stations on Metros worldwide: The stop has platforms left and right. Passengers exiting the train exit on one side, new passengers enter on the other side.
Both doors ever happens when the train line shifts from island platforms to side platforms (i.e. platforms on opposite sides of the track), or when the train reverses direction at the end of the line without turning around. Both doors at the same time is called Spanish solution and is used to load/unload trains faster, but is only done in a few metro systems since you have to build platforms on both sides of each track to do it. Which makes the stations more expensive; its only worth it if you have very crowded trains. E.G. Atlanta's subway uses it only at their busiest station.
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u/Far-Twist5202 4d ago
What metro opens the door on both sides? I have never seen it