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A free fox in a free henhouse!
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
OTOH I think in-service trains stopping just outside a terminal station is near-unavoidable: when a departing and an arriving train stop at the same platform or their paths cross, a delay for the train scheduled to pass the 'exclusion zone' can delay the other. (Still, when I was in Gare St. Lazare, which by number of calling trains is like the busiest commuter rail station in the world, I don't remember seeing a single example.) *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
The exact place is called "Pont Cardinet". There is a huge real estate project in the area, that would involve covering the tracks, but I don't really know the exact perimeter. A free fox in a free henhouse!
On the open line, of course a moving block system would help. (On commuter lines with a low number of train types, it is easier to implement, see the success of CBTC vs. the not even in pilot stage ETCS Level 3.) *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
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