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   Peter T. Daniels to danny burstein   
   Re: more off-peak subway service   
   09 May 15 05:26:40   
   
   From: grammatim@verizon.net   
      
   On Friday, May 8, 2015 at 11:16:41 PM UTC-4, danny burstein wrote:   
   > In  "Peter T.   
   Daniels"  writes:   
   >   
   > >On Friday, May 8, 2015 at 7:38:30 PM UTC-4, jme...@verizon.net wrote:   
   > >> "Almost all of the additional service will be scheduled during off-peak   
   hours..."   
   > >>   
   > >> I'm sure that's very nice indeed, but how does that help the vast   
   majority of commuters, who use mass transit to get to work and back home?   
   >   
   > >On which lines is rush hour service not at the maximum possible? And, this   
   > >is "the city that never sleeps." The only one in the world with 24/7 service   
   > >everywhere.   
   >   
   > Didn't we have a regular here on nyc.transit who used to post   
   > the "train per hour" ("tph") numbers from the 1960s and   
   > show the througput was higher back then?   
      
   And it was believed that several accidents were caused by too-close trains.   
      
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