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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

godai

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1. Short term fix to squeeze more people in 8 car trains.

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Thu Oct 25, 2012, 10:03 AM

Oct 2012

Long term, METRO has big capacity problems. Trains can't be lengthened, or they won't fit in the stations. This style of car will help. once they replace all the existing cars. Carpeting, which was wrong to begin with, is gone.

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(Washington DC) Metro shows off newest rail car [View all] marmar Oct 2012 OP

Short term fix to squeeze more people in 8 car trains. godai Oct 2012 #1

Nice looking car! Agschmid Nov 2012 #2