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Posted by Deaks on Thu Jun 22 10:19:11 2006, in response to Re: Here comes Staten Is. Light Rail?, posted by Rail Blue on Wed Jun 21 13:25:52 2006. Then how did Liverpool and Newcastle manage it?Both Liverpool's and Newcastle's systems need to cross major rivers, thus either a bridge or a tunnel is a necessity. Manchester's does not - presumably therefore, the cheaper street-running option was chosen. Given budget constraints, I'm not surprised street running was chosed - a tunnel in Manchester would have been a 'lixury', rather than a necessity, as in Liverpool and Newcastle - and with such an expensive luxury it's unlikely that the project would have gone ahead. That's not much of an achievement, given what was there before. Correct, but the scale of achievement isn't under discussion - the degree of improvement over what was previous is. As it stands, Bury and Altrincham now have a level of service (provided by light-rail) far superior to that provided by the heavy rail service that was there before. |
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