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With the right investments, NJ could become the most transit friendly state due to our small size and our dense population centers (which are almost all centered around former train stations)
True story i'm impressed with Jersey system!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Blue line is kinda in a Grey area....so i would call it a commuter line / subway. It uses overhead catenary wires along above ground part & 3rd rail in the Underground part. Subways mostly use 3rd rail. Except in a few places. Honestly the blue line is really a Light Rail.
The Blue line is kinda in a Grey area....so i would call it a commuter line / subway. It uses overhead catenary wires along above ground part & 3rd rail in the Underground part. Subways mostly use 3rd rail. Except in a few places. Honestly the blue line is really a Light Rail.
Where the juice come from makes no difference in the classification of light vs heavy rail (although generaly light uses over head and heavy uses the 3rd rail). Heavy rail lines carry larger volumes of passengers and travel at higher rates of speed than their light rail counterparts. The MBTA's Blue line is a heavy rail line. It uses the same 4' 8 1/2" gauge rail the other lines use, and the cars have the same passenger capacity.
Also light rail can be a "subway" if it runs underground (Green line and SF's MUNI). On the same token, Chicago's L isn't a subway even though it's heavy rail, since it opperates on elevated track.
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