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   Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 07:07:21 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

   • A group about the Philippines

   It's about time to close some of the original Green Line (LRT-1) stations to improve travel time & timing.

   Quirino Station no doubt have the least traffic & income. 5th Ave, Carriedo, Bambang, UN, Abad Santos are candidates too

   https://youtu.be/jdg6-ftSvLc?si=d-oI0RaqG7ucnbRW

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     Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 02:32:28 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

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     • A group about the Philippines
     • adrian

     @adgaps However, trains were not supposed to have a station every major intersection. If you look at the old stations, a lot of them are too close to each other. And also prevents them from going faster.

     If it's the reason for keeping these stations, then we should have more stations for MRT-7, the NSCR, and other future projects. They should give in to the request of Caloocan City to add a station between Monumento and Balintawak. (The LRTA is refusing because (a) timing; (b) per their studies, the station will stay in the negative.)

     The timing for the Green Line is also off. A well-planned train line shouldn't have regular instances where the train has to stop longer at a station and/or stop in-between stations. (We're not counting train issues or passengers stopping the doors.)

     In other countries, they don't shy away from closing stations. Maybe the stations were useful when the Line was first built, but things change. We know better how to design a train system. The operational costs, the timing, can trains reach close to their top speed between stations.

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     adrian (adgaps@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 02:32:29 JST adrian

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     • A group about the Philippines

     @youronlyone @pilipinas @philippines That doesn't make sense though. The point of having these stations is so you won't have to travel farther just to use the train. If they're low volume stations, it's good actually because they don't have to wait longer for passengers, but at least those passengers have a choice.

     Removing this convenience just makes using private transport a more compelling option.

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     Jepoy Bengero (jepoy@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 03:05:00 JST Jepoy Bengero

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     @youronlyone Carriedo Station serves as a gateway to Raon, Binondo, and Quiapo Church. Bambang Station provides access to stores selling affordable medical supplies. UN Station is near several hospitals and museums, while Quirino Station is close to parks. Removing these stations defeats the purpose of having shorter travel distances between locations.

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     Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 03:05:00 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

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     • Jepoy Bengero
     • A group about the Philippines

     @jepoy The Quiapo area can be reached from Central Station. Or, Doroteo Jose if they prefer Avenida. It's easy to get to UN Avenue from Pedro Gil. Sure, it won't be convenient without Carriedo and UN stations.

     Bambang… it can stay but one other station still has to go. Tayuman? The stations along that part are too close, the train engineers don't even have to bother increasing their speed beyond the minimum required to get the wheels rolling.

     Quirino Station. If parks are the only reason, there are jeepney routes plying nearer to the parks than the station can provide. And people who haven't been in the area before don't know those parks exist. I think "parks" fits the UN Station more: the vast land of Rizal Park, and the adjacent Intramuros historical site. It's a plus for the UN Station than to Quirino Station.

     Either way, these are only what I think based on my own experience using the original stations. The LRTA holds the data for each station so of course they know better which stations are in the Top 5 for potential closure.

     Or, maybe, partial operations. Say, whichever Top 5 stations those are, at certain times they're skipped. Say, Quirino Station. Non-peak hours, the station is skipped. During peak hours when the Station receives the highest count of passengers, the trains stop there.

     Hmm… now that I think about it, if IIRC, they did something similar to that back in the 90s. I recall hearing "this train will skip the next station". Once when I was in Monumento, they skipped 5th Ave. and another when I was in Baclaran Station, I had to wait because the current train was going to skip Libertad Station.M

     Maybe they can review that and see if they can implement it again.

     Anyway, the original stations of Green Line is not like the Yellow Line (MRT-3) where there are no other choices than to use trains, like from Mantrade Station to Ayala Station. Public transportation along EDSA is the worst. But along Taft and Avenida, there are plenty of options.

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