Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more

[chutten]

We're missing the accessibility angle, which is the bane of any grade-separated transit be it subway or elevated. One thing making the LRT affordable (!) to build is that the stations are little barely more than a double-long iXpress stop. No stairs, elevators, or escalators. Barely any lighting. No tunneling. No scaffolding. Barely any roofs or walls (this is going to suck in winter (my prediction)).

I think I would've preferred grade-separated transit. Routing would've been less cut-and-dried by the presence of existing rail, and I like linear induction motors. But the realities of the situation when these decisions were being made were not going to result in a favourable decision.