The Death of Imagination

I don't know how well it worked. (They stopped doing it, after all, though I don't know the details as to why.) But even if it worked under normal circumstances, that doesn't necessarily mean it's helpful for spreading out trains that have gotten concentrated in one place. Maybe it is. But the top speed of an alternating stops train is going to be less than that of an express. Wore, the entire line is limited to the speed of the train in front-- the one that, presumably after a long delay, is picking up the largest crowd and is having the hardest time getting its doors closed while urging people to wait for the next train.

(None of which means I don't feel the frustration of seeing one train or several pass me by when I've already been waiting too long. I just don't know if there's necessarily a good alternative.)