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Originally Posted by SoCalKid
This is a really misleading post. You're comparing capacity to ridership and presenting it as a capacity to capacity comparison.
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No, I was not. I just wanted to remind everyone what a single lane of traffic could carry. Instead of having eight passengers in the cars, suppose it was one passenger in eight lanes of cars. I-95 is at least 8 lanes wide in NJ.
The main point I wanted and is still trying to make is that there are capacity restraints with every mode of transport. Adding additional tracks to the NEC is not going to increase Amtrak's ridership much without adding additional platforms, additional trains, additional everything because just about everything is already at capacity.