Talk:Stockholm Metro

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[edit] A few substantive edits

I have made a few edits to this page, including the one giving a higher nominal voltage for the Blue line (made before I had a Wikipedia account), and a few today providing some additional details about the C20 rolling stock and about the lower maximum speed on the Green line (70 km/h instead of 80). These edits are based on knowledge I acquired about the system while I was living in Stockholm and was qualified as a train operator on the Green and Blue lines. --Tkynerd 17:40, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 16

What does the lack of a 16 in the line numbers mean?? Georgia guy 14:54, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

It doesn't mean anything in particular. The line numbers have historical origins, mostly. For example, 13 and 14 are used on the Red line because tram lines with those numbers used to serve the southwest suburbs, where the Red line goes now, and in fact portions of those tram lines were rebuilt for subway service. There's also no 15 because the route formerly served by tram line 15 is not served by a subway line (it's now served by bus line 515). And so on. The former tram line 16 also went to the southwestern suburbs, as did line 17, but when they were selecting line numbers for the subway system, they apparently just went with 13 and 14 for the Red line. --Tkynerd 13:27, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Per Johansson

Since Per Johansson is known as a unionist and organizer on the Stockholm metro (and not for anything else), and since the page about him has additional information on the Stockholm metro of a more political nature that is not appropriate here, I have restored the link to Per Johansson on this page (under "See also"). Objections should be discussed here before the link is removed again, so that consensus can be reached. --Tkynerd 13:40, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

He is not very well known in Sweden, possibly not even in Stockholm. Neng5 15:23, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
The appropriate course of action, in that case, is to tag Per Johansson for removal, presumably for not meeting WP:Notability. (FYI, I will fight that with citations from Swedish media.) If the article is then removed, the link can be removed from Stockholm Metro. Until then, it should stay, because what you've just argued is not a reason for removing the link from here. --Tkynerd 04:28, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 100 stations?

It seems Stockholm has many more stations than many cities wich are bigger than Stockholm, how come? Is it something to do with defining an metro station? Drogo 11:28, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

There really are 100 stations; you can count them. And that only includes counting transfer stations like T-Centralen, Fridhemsplan, etc. one time. The reason Stockholm has an unusually extensive metro system for its size is that in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, when the bulk of the system was built and opened, Swedish urban planning emphasized the construction of dense mixed-use suburban centers around rapid-rail stations. This is also the reason why Stockholm's transit system is unusually heavily used (e.g., Stockholm is about one-tenth the size of New York, but its metro carries about one-fifth as many people as New York's). --Tkynerd 15:16, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
Number of stations is a function of station spacing. Yes Stockholm seems unusually for its size but station spacing is shorter than most other cities allowing one to "fit" more stations into the same space. Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_systems_by_number_of_stations 147.200.199.37 02:20, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
The average interstation distance in Stockholm is 1.1 km, which is not out of line with other older systems. More recent systems generally have longer interstation distances in order to achieve higher average speeds, but many older systems have closely spaced stations (e.g., New York, London). --Tkynerd 04:17, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
They probably wanted people to have reasonable walking distances to a station whereever they lived, if they lived near a metro line. Its predecessor, the tram lines, probably had denser stations. -- BIL 22:49, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
That's always the tradeoff: the more stations you have, the more people they're close to, but the fewer stations you have, the faster people's journeys will be. :-) --Tkynerd 01:08, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Opening dates

I have removed the column "Opened" from the Lines table. It is quite ambigous and difficult to decide when a line was opened - is it when the first part of the line was opened, or is it when the whole line was completed? The dates in this version of the article were not the same as in the Swedish version of the article, and there are no sources or references on this subject. Kildor 12:29, 14 July 2007 (UTC)