02-22-2018, 09:45 PM
(02-22-2018, 07:01 PM)KevinT Wrote: Sounds like it's safely out of meddling political hands. The consortium, experts in their field, will no doubt go with whichever option makes the most economic sense for the operating period of the contract, which I suspect would be at least 20 years. Sanity will prevail.
Sadly, this kind of thinking is why we have a mess of overhead catenary down our streets, instead of inductive power transfer (PRIMOVE) for our LRV's on ION. A technology was available which could have been amazing, but we went with "Tried and true" because reasons.
I cried a little inside riding the H-Bahn in Dortmond and Dusseldorf thinking about how it would have solved all the problems of getting to Cambridge... and been built in a third of the time... for a third of the money... and and and...