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Posted by WillD on Sat Jun 17 23:43:16 2006, in response to Re: Study Re: Here comes Staten Is. Light Rail, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jun 17 18:47:41 2006. For the last time, startup costs and street-running—and mainly because heavy-rail proposals would involve building underground segments. With the SIR, no such thing is the case. (And let's not forget political patronage.)Actually no. The German cities after WWII are a prime example. Hamburg, Nuremberg, and Munich all adopted heavy rail subways, while Frankfurt, Bonn, Stuttgart, and Koln opted for a high capacity light rail solution. In all cases, regardless of the mode chosen subway tunnels were built for the transit system. Frankfurt constructed an entire subway system from their light rail trains and operates more lines than Nuremberg. Koln's system features extensive subway and dedicated right of way construction, resulting in jusr 12% of the routes sharing space with traffic. Stuttgart followed Frankfurt's example and constructed a very comprehensive Metro system from their light rail network. In all cases the cities which went for the LRT Metro solution have a far more flexible system with nearly every bit the economy normally attributed to heavy rail systems. Today Bielfeld. Bochum, Dusseldorf, Duisburg, Essen, and Hannover all have pre-metro LRT subways of some variety. These cities admittedly are nothing like NYC, but then neither is Staten Island's North Shore. You'll never need SAS-like capacity on that stretch, and if you by some incredible fluke of the real estate market actually do need it then you can always upgrade down the line. Your political patronage canard is a double edged sword. It could just as easily be that the folks in Hamburg, Munich, and Nuremburg had friends who owned construction companies and would stand to profit handsomely from Metro building. As such it's a moot point. |
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