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Sometimes it feels like folks in US would build anything but efficient transit 🤦 (slrpnk.net)

submitted 6 days ago by hono4kami to c/publictransport

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[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 6 days ago (7 children)

The problem it can't solve is that rich people might have to interact with mere humans. The car in a tube seats four and locks, so there's zero chance you'll have to sit next to a minority.

I wonder if rail would be more appealing to them if the coaches were designed as multiple isolated cells that seated 4-6, rather than straight-through corridors that permit mingling. (I've seen some old designs like that, in German narrow-gauge form)

[–] hono4kami 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The problem it can’t solve is that rich people might have to interact with mere humans.

I can relate. We, in Indonesia, have a problem where politicians, whose never even ride a train before, gets to decide the policies about public transport, and those who gets the consequenece is low-middle class who uses public transport. There was a meme from a year ago where a tone-deaf politician says the overcrowded trains in Jakarta doesn't exist even though it overcrowding is clearly a problem in regional line (KRL) due to lack of trains.

I wonder if rail would be more appealing to them if the coaches were designed as multiple isolated cells that seated 4-6, rather than straight-through corridors that permit mingling.

Assuming we're talking about short distance trains, absolutely no, lol. It's just space inefficient. I will understand if it is a long distance trains, and it is a thing.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Short-distance city trains used to have multiple compartments too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_Door_(train) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris_(train)

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 1 points 5 days ago

Things like the "C-Trains" in Calgary, despite being intended for mass transit (and ridden mainly by the poors) are also multi-compartment.

[–] hono4kami 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I assumed the parent commenter meant this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compartment_coach

But if the commenter meant cross-seat trains like this:

cross seat train from Japan

then yeah it exists

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 days ago

Yes.... it's the first one? Did you not look at the links I shared?

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