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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
(07-02-2015, 12:44 PM)Chris Wrote: I'd love to see the new buses go high instead of long. I'm not sure if the infrastructure around town supports double decker height and the increased loading and unloading times would upset impatient drivers but the smaller footprint is appealing.

The LRT's wiring (which seems to be consistently omitted from every rendering I've seen of the system) will complicate using double-decker buses on any routes that cross the tracks. Those routes would be the most likely to be the high-volume routes, too.

I was wrong. Many designs of double-decker buses could fit under the overhead catenaries (citations in my newer post)
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RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit - by chutten - 07-02-2015, 01:12 PM
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