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Re: VHB lands contract for environmental review of proposed Brooklyn Queens Connector |
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Posted by Steamdriven on Thu Feb 7 22:35:27 2019, in response to Re: VHB lands contract for environmental review of proposed Brooklyn Queens Connector, posted by italianstallion on Thu Feb 7 20:43:30 2019. If the surface street layout has room for streetcars it can work. It did work in NYC at one time, and you could get from anywhere to everywhere in the city on rails.* This ain't that.The plans I saw for the BQ trolley all got hung up in side streets; there was room to run for part of the route, then the street layout forces them into a made-to-fail routing. Even then it's going to run slower than car traffic, not faster, because it's gotta run in street, not above or below. Do the boosters in those other cities count the total system cost vs the passenger-miles used? Trolleys/LRVs are logical, but we don't live in a logical world. Instead, prices for any public works with rails come in far above what they did originally, while power equipment and 100 years of labor saving methods should make them cheaper. I suspect the fans in some cases are real estate developers and transit fans, not Joe Taxpayer. Personally I'd be happy to use it, but I will not demand that everyone else pay, say, $10 per ride so we can have our toy train. * Not literally everywhere .. some people ... sheesh. |
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