Seoul residents will soon be able to travel on the subway system without seats. Wagons with standing room are intended to provide more comfortable travel conditions during rush hours. The subway in South Korea’s capital is one of the most congested in the world.
The pilot program will begin in January in Seoul, the capital of South Korea. The city’s metro managers announced on Wednesday that two-coach trains will be allowed into service, with standing-room only passengers — no seats. As of now, such wagons run on two routes during morning and afternoon peak traffic hours.
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Metro without seats
The purpose of the tested solution is to reduce congestion in the subway during peak hours. The removal of the seats is intended to provide more space for passengers and improve their travel comfort. According to metro managers statistics, lines 4 and 7, where the program will be introduced, reached 193 and 164 percent, respectively, only at the end of the third quarter of 2023. Its capacity during peak hours. By removing the seats, the crowd size is estimated to decrease by 153 and 130 percent, respectively. The maximum is predicted.
“If the pilot project proves successful, we will expand this initiative in the future to ensure citizens can use the subway more conveniently and safely,” said Baek Ho, executive director of the subway system.
SEOUL – Crowds on the subway
The program is one of the components of a wider set of measures to improve conditions in the metro, which include, among others: increasing the number of trains on the two most congested lines. The Seoul Metro has nine lines and 275 stations. It serves about seven million passengers every day.
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