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Reading “Tokyo’s Covid anti-crowding measures backfire as trains needlessly crowded” I am reminded of the error that Transport For London made here at Stratford during the pandemic. In an attempt to “control covid” they use a one-way system during peak. This simply makes matter worse because each passenger now has to travel TWICE as far in the station (also outside the station over the bridge) which doubles everyone’s (staff and public) exposure!
There is a good reason that car-based one-way systems have been removed: removal doubles the road capacity! Even TfL have on-line documents showing this.
Just for clarity, I’m taking about the one-way system (entry-only at Westfield, exit-only at old Stratford) not requiring people to keep the left of a line which is very sensible.
@Brian
What you say about one-way streets is far from self-evident. According to DMRB Vol 5 Section 1 Chapter 3 “Determination of Urban Road Capacity”, at UAP1 standard with 7.3m lanes, a dual carriageway (ie two 2-lane one way streets) is 3600/hr whereas the equivalent standard 2-way single carriageway is 1590/hr. So two 2-lane one-way streets ought to increase capacity by about 13% over two single carriageway two-way streets. Similar relationships apply for other road standards and carriageway widths.
If what you say about TfL reports is true, then maybe there is some reason that 2-lane one-way streets in London were not operating with the capacity of one side of a dual carriageway. Or maybe when you have a a set of traffic lights every 100m, it doesn’t work like that any more.
I thought recent one-way street removals in the West End, which I pass through by bicycle in normal times, was to “civilise” them in the context of the long-term reduction in central London traffic, not to increase capacity.