new york city subway capacity

The passenger throughput of the NYC subway system is fairly large: during rush hour, over 1000 people every 6 seconds.

and if there was no subway:

"At best, it would take 167 inbound lanes, or 84 copies of the Queens Midtown Tunnel... At worst, 200 new copies of 5th Avenue. Somewhere in the middle would be 67 West Side Highways or 76 Brooklyn Bridges. And this neglects the Long Island Railroad, Metro North, NJ Transit, and PATH systems entirely."

...except Manhattan would need a parking lot three times the size of Central Park so this is all just for perspective.

So I guess a city is an organism... a living entity that grows into itself.

And Manhattan without trains is unsustainable - all commerce would wither within days if there were no trains.

Frumination / frumin.net