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Re: Rubber-tired subways |
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Posted by Jon Bell on Tue Jun 26 10:44:20 2012, in response to Rubber-tired subways, posted by Italianstallion on Mon Jun 25 22:24:21 2012. The French like to do things "their own way." :-/Another example is the "tram sur pneus," a sort of tram/trolleybus hybrid which uses rubber tires and dual overhead wires like a trolleybus, together with a single guiding rail down the middle of the "trackway." Nancy and Caen built these, and one of them (I forget which) had so much trouble with vehicles "jumping the track" that they've decided to convert to regular two-rail trams. There's also an optically-guided version of this system, with laser beams bouncing off a path marked on the pavement or something like that, but I don't remember which city decided to go with it or whether it's actually in operation yet. |
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