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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Tue Feb 23 15:00:53 2010, in response to Re: What is the fastest speed of a subway train?, posted by Hank Eisenstein on Tue Feb 23 11:02:32 2010. What does it say about Mass Transit systems in the US is MARTA, with two main lines, is the fifth largest?Quite a bit if you look at the situation carefully. For one thing, it does show a lack of spending on rail transport infrastructure, which can be biased based on political affiliation unlike in other countries where rail transport is considered to be an aspirational goal by both left and right. In turn, it's partially affected by development practices and social norms which make it harder to construct successful railway networks in the first place. Plus, the elevated costs of tunneling and grade separation have lead most cities to construct light rail/stadtbahn networks in lieu of full blown metro systems which have had varying success. We now have multi-line light systems like LACMTA (Blue, Gold, Green, and soon "Expo"), Portland Tri-Met (Red, Green, Yellow, Blue), San Diego (Blue, Orange, Green), and Dallas (Red, Blue, Green) with a number of systems having network mileage larger than that of MARTA. |
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