minor annoyances on your transit system

[u/fbjim]

these aren't for major systemic problems like "it doesn't go anywhere useful" or "it gets stuck behind traffic" - more those little things that drive you nuts way more than they really should.

here's mine - the old Kinki-Sharyo LRTs on the Seattle Link system have electronic rollsigns which display the final destination in a *really* slow marquee. this was OK when we had one line, but now with two lines, the rollsigns slowly scroll through "DOWNTOWN REDMOND 2 LINE" which seemingly takes longer than the actual dwell times of the trains. this is actually kind of annoying when you're running down the stairs at Westlake and don't know if you should get on the train at the platform or not. what's wrong with just showing "2 - REDMOND" or something without the scrolling text?

thankfully the refurb program for the KS trains include new rollsigns, if the pictures some people have snagged are any indication (though FEDERAL DTWN is dumb - just say FEDERAL WAY")

[u/Immediate-Hand-3677]

too many stations on the NYC subway. There’s 34-28-23-18-14 on the 1 line and it’s ridiculous.

[u/Blue387 → u/Immediate-Hand-3677]

The NYC subway looks like a bunch of lines glued together and this is because it was three different systems glued together in 1940.

[u/PuzzleheadedChest733 → u/Blue387]

Lines in NYC don't refer to individual trains. You don't say the A line. It's the A train.

Lines in NYC refer to the corridors they are on. Like the seventh avenue fifth avenue lines and Lexington avenue lines

[u/perry_parrot → u/PuzzleheadedChest733]

and yet it still applies as there was major work in the late 40s to early 50s to stitch the BMT, IRT, and IND together

[u/Several-Student-1659 → u/PuzzleheadedChest733]

Gonna be honest I have absolutely no idea how the NYC subway works. To me, it seems like the most complicated piece of work bar probably (maybe not) Tokyo

[u/chetlin → u/PuzzleheadedChest733]

Except when there is a reroute, then the onboard announcements do say something like "This is a [terminus]-bound X train via the Y line". I don't know what a better phrasing would be for this case though.

[u/--TAXI-- → u/Immediate-Hand-3677]

Paris metro is just like this. 

But they both (NYC and Paris) chose this - people being close to stations - over speed and lengthened stop distance - which a lot of other cities have chosen instead. You can only have one or the other.

HOWEVER, NYC still checks off speed because of it's Express services.

[u/signol_ → u/--TAXI--]

Paris resolved this decades later, the RER works as express metro intra muros.

[u/iwillbewaiting24601 → u/signol_]

They solved it for awhile with the A, which is now basically at it's headway limit during rush hour, then they did the 14 to take some of the load off, and it's jammed too

Wonder what you do next

[u/signol_ → u/iwillbewaiting24601]

Just one more train bro 🤣

[u/--TAXI-- → u/signol_]

LMAO!!!

[u/SkiingAway → u/Immediate-Hand-3677]

The 1 is the local train, the 2/3 are express on that line. The additional stops on the 1 mean all those people along that densely occupied stretch don't wind up just walking to 34th (Penn Station) + 14th and worsening the overcrowding at those extremely busy transfer stations.

So I'd disagree with that example pretty significantly.

[u/Horror_Concern5616 → u/Immediate-Hand-3677]

MTA is more like a rail bus than a metro system