We were talking about the Bankstown line. However, I was tossing up whether to mention the 20 trains per hour suburban scenario in my post, but I thought I'd sit back and see who came back at me on it. I thought it would be Transtopic, so I lost that bet. You were the clear runner up though.Linto63 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 19, 2022 8:57 pm In order to keep things on a like-for-like basis, it the metro can at full operational potential seat 15,120, then double deck trains operating at three minute intervals, as they do at times on some lines, would have 18,000 seats. Suburban smokes metro. Again your suggestion of a dishonest picture is flawed.
When you have that many people on board, seats matter less and we're looking at total capacity which, in those scenarios, is over 40,000 pphpd for metro and about 24,000 pphpd for a thoroughly smoked optimum suburban service. In terms of seating, though, the difference between 15,000 and 18,000 is nothing like the picture portrayed by metro opponents who have us believe, on their train vs train comparison, that the metro has only about 40% of the seats of the suburban system when in fact it's closer to 85% when delivered at maximum capacity on an hour by hour basis.