[aglavine]

At the risk of being näive, Why Tube trains are still a thing?

I want underground mini buses, optimizing their stops to the passengers' inside. Most of we passengers go to hub stations.

Tubes are like a 100-year old tech without remarkable changes.

[stuaxo]

Capacity and dwell time.

27 (soon to be 30) trains per hour on the Jubilee line for instance, hundreds of people can get on and off each one.

[aglavine]

I don't know why I was downvoted for just asking a question.

I don't get it. Suppose this scenario:

- Instead of big formations, replace each wagon with an electric minibus. - Instead of stopping in all stations, each minibus stops in, lets say 3 or 4. - Each passenger checks into the bus dinamically assigned to their stop. - Minibuses can surpass each other.

You have less dwell time, each ride is reduced to one third of the time.