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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Sat Feb 24 19:28:40 2018, in response to Re: Jamaica EL/Archer Subway, posted by ftgreeneg on Sat Feb 24 18:44:05 2018. FWIW, I call them all streetcars. Now as to your example of Toronto, with the Bombardier Flexities now in delivery, TTC has finally woken up to evicting autos from the tracks on at least one line. If they go MU, that will give them better service. Septa is now contemplating purchasing new cars. They will have to either buy very long 'single cars' or go MU because just like Boston and SF, they try to squeeze 5 routes into a tunnel for 30+ blocks. That limits rush hour service to 10minute headways which suck bigtime.In Boston, many trains are two units because they need a Breda on each run to provide low floor accessibility but the Kinkis are needed for volume. Much of the Boston system is private ROW on routes built before the flacks who coined light rail were born. In SF (across the Bay from me) Muni runs single car trains nights and weekends, and of course the PCCs are, but in general the J, K(T), L, M, N, run as 2 car trains in base day as well as rush. SF Muni used to pay a second driver to ride in the second unit with nothing to do but collect fares out on the street. AFAIK Boston still does even though both systems have door and propulsion MU control. In SF, given POP, and barrier fare control in the tunnel under Market St, the second driver no longer exists. Because I am old enough to remember multiple examples of streetcars running in exclusive ROW for some of their routes (in DC where I grew up, Shaker Heights, vestigial evidence in Chicago, and parts of the last of Baltimore, as well as segments of Muni) I don't consider, PROW makes a streetcar a light rail vehicle. |
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