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Posted by Olog-hai on Sat Dec 26 13:04:00 2009, in response to Re: Future expansion wish list?, posted by JayZeeBMT on Sat Dec 26 12:26:38 2009. I'd like to see some light-rail development in NYC. I think the city made a huge mistake in permitting its trolley routes to be motorized during the mid-20th centuryThat would be on Fiorello and Robert. If not for they, then perhaps the conduit-powered PCC would have been in cities other than Washington DC, I'd say. The trolleys were slow, yes, but no more so than today's buses, and they were (and are) much more environmentally friendly. LRV's burn no fossil fuels and emit no greenhouse gases. They have longer service lives than buses, require less maintenance per seat mile, and their tracks and other infrastructure are relatively easy (and inexpensive, compared with subway construction) to build Leave the "climategate" rhetoric out of it, because there are many actual plusses to streetcars. (Leave 5th Avenue for the buses, though; that was their traditional denizen, and as such a curiosity.) |
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