Boltar wrote:

There was a short piece on BBC london news on TV last night about
the new vic line trains and an interview with some bod at (I
think) Bombardier. Anyway , turns out that it looks like the
prototypes at least will have less seating (quelle surprise) and
a lot of what seating is left will be flip up so theres room for
all these mythical wheelchair bound passengers we keep hearing
about but no one has ever actually seen.

But how does this new train design compare to other (relatively) recent
tube train designs? Have they overcome the following three design flaws:

Floor too high?
Wasted space between seats and wall?
End connection not safe to use while train is moving?