Re: Stuttgart 21 protests

[Alexander Terekhov]

Update...

Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> 
> Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> [...]
> > carries a label such as "RB" or "RE".  I suspect a lot of councillors who
> > voted for this scheme were suffering the same confusion.  I agree, 160
> > trains a day would fit comfortably into an 8 platform station.  600
> > trains won't.
> 
> Blah blah blah.
> 
> The facts are that the planned theoretical maximum for S21 is 72 trains
> per hour with practical target around 50 per hour at maximum. The
> current peak hour utilization is around 47 trains per hour (that's
> according to the protesters -- I don't know if the count of 47 is not
> inflated). So the target of 51 is thus fully acceptable.

According to people in charge of running the railroad (live in SWR
Internet broadcast): 

The 2020 target for S21 is 64 trains per hour at practical maximum. The
current peak hour utilization is 54.

regards,
alexander.

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