Quote Originally Posted by professorscott View Post
Well, it makes a big difference - if the platform is not weather-controlled in any way - how long people have to wait. If you are taking the Chicago elevated trains, you are on a platform whose only weather protection is from rain - there's a roof, but the legendary Chicago winds can render even that almost useless - but on the other hand, you don't have to wait long between trains.

It's the same with the People Mover. You can be hot, or cold, or whatever, on the platform, but whenever you get there, within 1 to 3 minutes you can see a train coming, and in another minute or two you're on board. If you had to wait fifteen or twenty minutes, your reaction to the weather, and willingness to wait outdoors, might be different.

So that, then, is another important detail to work out - what is going to be the maximum wait time? By the way, don't let them blow smoke up your ass with "average" wait times. You can drown standing up in a river that is three feet deep on average.
You are completely right, but this isn't being rolled out within the year. The RTA has ALOT to work out and the poster I was responding is being rather impatient about seeing details that can't be hashed out until well into the actual process.