Rail Overcrowding “Easing”

in Featured by AKT — May 23, 2011 at 12:12 pm | 4 comments

Auckland Transport says the overcrowding of rail services is easing.
From 17 July trains will use five and six carriages on the southern line, following the completion of platform extension works. This will help further.
Recently AKT was asking if the overcrowded carriages was exceeding OSH limits and some female readers were getting distressed by the way males were crammed in so close to them near the doors.

Auckland Transport Chair Mark Ford revealed that there has been a “noticeable increase” in the number of train services exceeding the desired load factor of 1:4 (4 standing for every 10 seated). This is up from 3 standing for every 7 seated.

Auckland Transport says that when measured as an average across the month of April, the level of crowding on services eased during the month.
Based on an average of train crew passenger counts, which are performed at pre-set locations considered to represent the maximum load points of each
route, there were three services reported to have average load factors above 1.4 (i.e. four passengers standing for every ten seated passenger) – target planning standard, compared to twelve services recorded during March.
Two of these were morning peak services, one being a Southern line and the other being a Western line service and no service was recorded exceeding 1.5 of seated capacity on average.
It adds that individual daily loadings will vary.

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