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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Fri Aug 28 15:13:58 2015, in response to Someone remind me, what is the point of light rail again?, posted by geoffc on Fri Aug 28 07:23:35 2015. Queens Quay StreetcarFWIW, you did ride a streetcar. It's basically a bus on tracks with better acceleration and more capacity than a regular bus. In most cases, it's limited to whatever the speed of the local street is, and TTC sucks at signal pre-emption, so you're going to get something that isn't that fast. What is the point of light rail again? Modern streetcars in North America have been treated as a development tool versus an actual form of transit to replace heavily used bus routes as done in Europe, while light rail basically functions as de facto high frequency commuter service that's cheaper than building out an equivalent BART/WMATA/MARTA/SkyTrain and with less of the headache of trying to figure out high efficiency commuter railway services (S-Bahn). We basically took good German concepts and morphed them to create their half-assed American equivalents. I have seen HBLR through Jersey City and it crawls And yet, once you're south of LSP and north of 2nd Street, it's faster than anything NYCTA runs. And the Kinki-Sharyos out accelerate NYCTA stock. When was the last time that NYCTA had rolling stock that hit 55 mph on level track in service with 3.0 mph/s acceleration rates? |
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