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Posted by Deaks on Wed Jun 21 10:28:28 2006, in response to Re: Here comes Staten Is. Light Rail?, posted by Max Roberts on Tue Jun 20 11:53:05 2006. The Bury and Altrincham lines both ran every 15 minutes off-peak, so I wouldn't characterise these as being infrequent, no worse than many London Underground branches. They may or may not have been reliable, but street-running adds an extra variable to the equation.Fair enough with the frequency comment, but every six minutes is still far superior to every 15, with the added benefit that Metrolink serves the city centre - where most people are actually going to, I would suspect.... I'd also think that early morning, late evening and Sunday service is far superior now compared to BR days. The 'street running' that is often mentioned is bollocks. The extent of 'street running' (taking 'street running' as meaning sharing the road with other vehicles) on the Bury and Alty lines is from St Peter's Square, down Mosely Street to by the bus station at Piccadilly Gardens - a distance of perhaps a third of a mile. The remainder of the supposed street running in the CBD takes the form of separate rights-of-way inaccessible to motor vehicles, or a small distance through a pedestrianised are. |
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