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Re: WMATA sank into crisis despite decades of warnings |
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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Wed Apr 27 03:36:46 2016, in response to Re: WMATA sank into crisis despite decades of warnings, posted by Sand Box John on Wed Apr 27 00:08:58 2016. Both are hybrids, a combination of subway and commuter rail.As I've said before, WMATA and BART are arguably the Americanized versions of the German S-Bahn concept, especially in BART's case, except that due to our railway regulatory scheme which requires multiple employees and bans lightweight equipment, we're forced to reinvent the wheel by creating expensive segregated infrastructure. FWIW, WMATA is better at playing urban metro compared to BART*, but it's interesting to compare it to Montreal Metro which was their contemporary, and functions more like a traditional system, but also SkyTrain which employed the next generation of ATO, and has done a bunch better job of achieving what WMATA was expected to do. |
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