05-03-2021, 03:29 PM
(05-03-2021, 02:47 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(05-03-2021, 02:42 PM)ac3r Wrote: I've made the argument on here before that it was a stupid decision (and within the architecture and city planning community, I'm not alone). If they had tunneled or elevated it where it made sense to do so, it could actually manage to run at speeds close to 50-70 km/h and more people would use it.
They could run the trains substantially faster without changing the turn radii, let alone elevating or tunneling. This was discussed at length, numerous times, during the LRT construction. And hopefully it will happen yet.
And, as you implied, it likely would not have been built if it had to be elevated or tunneled.
This is on point. It seems like a large number of people...even certain YouTube personalities, have a strong dislike for LRT, for reasons of policy, rather than technology.
While I am sympathetic to the point, (after all, I argue one of the advantages of LRT over BRT is that the technology is harder to compromise with), I really do think surface LRT hits a usability sweet spot of access with speed...provided your engineers are willing to enable access and speed, rather than arbitrarily limit those things for no reason.