Suggestion of the Week: Train Length Announcements
Pete Lorimer had an excellent suggestion in the thread about the arrival of peak 3-car trains last month:
If Link is running a mix of three and two-car trains, people won't want to wait at the location of the third car in case the next train doesn't have one. Then they will have to walk forward to the second car, thus overfilling that car compared to the first car. In fact, if you wait at the third car location and there isn't one, you increase the chances of being left behind due to a fully loaded second car.
If our train arrival/announcement system was better, I would suggest they change the announcement to add info about the train length.
"The next train" Northbound" is arriving in" 2 minutes" It is composed of" 3 cars."
Comments on all aspects of the service changes are welcome on this post.