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Posted by tydev417 on Mon Jun 19 15:56:56 2006, in response to Re: Here comes Staten Is. Light Rail?, posted by randyo on Mon Jun 19 15:47:06 2006. A traditional street system is not really what is trying to be captured here. But I did read your other post and the line between heavy rail and light rail is very blurred but here's a few factors that come into play with the North Shore line:-The amount of passengers riding the line daily, it's not alot when compared to other lines and R160-like trains would obviously be longer than LRT trains but what happens off hours when you have the heavy rail trains running with only 5 people on the entire train? LRT would suit that. -The cost per mile, this mixes in with the factor above, an excellent amount of people would use the new line but heavy rail as we know costs more to run than LRT, and also cost more to maintain. -The line will have only 6 stops, why spend more money on heavy rail and keeping the row separated when it would be much simpler to use LRT and have it inter-twine with Richmond Terrace at the same level. |
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