Anonymous asked:
L + light rail works in certain circumstances + the DLR is shorter than link in seattle with only twice the stations and less track length and no city-centre tunnel and serves an area of roughly half of link with 5x the passengers and relieves metro and heavy rail lines. plus the milan metro is light rail and kicks ass people in north america are just so starved of urban transit they call what is a tram system everywhere else e.g. paris tram system "light rail" to make themselves feel like they have anything at all. looking at you l.a. metro k line
amtrak-official answered:
Okay but have you considered that separated right of ways are way better and you can run more faster trains on heavy rail because of the stronger units and you know it’s fucking fully separated from the road. Also Seattle isn’t using heavy rail for sound transit its fucking light rail for some shitty reason
@fujoshi-eminem Oh I honestly do need to learn about London public transit. But still I honestly feel like if it is already grade separated why not just use heavy rail.
(Also this light rail hate thing is mostly a bit because I need something to do with this blog while waiting for more train news)
@fujoshi-eminem I agree here actually. My perspective is basically just build a damn tram or streetcar if you are going to run on the road and just build real heavy rail for a mass transit system since light rail just isn’t as good as either of the other 2 options available. It can’t carry as many people as heavy rail and isn’t as flexible or cheap as a street car. It is in my opinion the worst option
