What's your favorite form of mass transit? (highway, market, issues)
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It is not just Houston. All the new light rails (Boston excluded) I've seen travel like that in their downtowns. They claim to have 30mph and signal priority but it usually doesn't work well.
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Originally Posted by Spade
Yeah, it will travel that slow man. The new lines in Houston will travel that slow because it will all will run in the middle of the street.
Well most of the discussed cities here only have one or two lines. It is not like you can reach anywhere. If they don't travel at high speeds, I honestly don't think I would ride them.
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Originally Posted by cityboi757
I know nobody is comparing the two, but he said it will get old and people won't want to ride it because of the slow speed
Location: A Small Metro In Southeastern Virginia Called Virginia Beach/Norfolk.
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Well most of the discussed cities here only have one or two lines. It is not like you can reach anywhere. If they don't travel at high speeds, I honestly don't think I would ride them.
What makes it travel so slow? Top speed is like 60. I know it's downtown and amongst pedestrians and other vehicles but it should at least hit 30-35
This doesn't even look real and it shows the most ideal case to give the light rail its priority. I believe the street in the crossing direction doesn't have traffic lights but a stop sign. It would be very different for a large crossing, with heavy traffic on all four sides. It is very messy.
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Well that's no good.
This is in the middle of the street and it looks like it's going fast as the car
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This doesn't even look real and it shows the most ideal case to give the light rail its priority. I believe the street in the crossing direction doesn't have traffic lights but a stop sign. It would be very different for a large crossing, with heavy traffic on all four sides. It is very messy.
It's not real lol.
Here when it crosses a major street or intersection it's elevated from street level so not to disrupt traffic.
But I understand the idea. Heavy rail is faster, carries more, and has an exclusive ROW the entire length. Light rail i too slow, carries less, and has it's own ROW but can get tricky. Discussion over ha
I honestly don't believe it will be that way all along because I haven't seen any single light rail recently constructed are elevated downtown. In low density areas maybe, downtown no way. Maybe your city's downtown is so small that it just bypasses it without reaching into the core.
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It's not real lol.
Here when it crosses a major street or intersection it's elevated from street level so not to disrupt traffic.
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