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Surrey council unanimously passes motion to ‘cancel ’ LRT
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11-13-2018, 04:57 PM (This post was last modified: 11-13-2018, 04:58 PM by ijmorlan.)
(11-13-2018, 12:19 PM)tomh009 Wrote: Fully grade-separated. But somewhere else they said that parts might be at grade.
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news...lly-funded

This one is bogus, at least as to technology choice. LRT can be grade-separated; it just has the flexibility to not be if it’s helpful to do so in a particular situation. A requirement for a technology to be grade-separated is a minus, not a plus.

Now of course this works in reverse; part of the reason LRT can be less expensive is because it can skip the grade-separation. So if a particular route warrants grade-separation, this benefit of LRT disappears. It reappears if there are significant extensions of the system that could usefully be made where grade separation is not warranted.

So if the argument is over routes and how fast they run, it’s legitimate to champion an alternate proposal that is fully grade-separated. But wanting grade separation isn’t a reason to choose SkyTrain rather than LRT.
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RE: Surrey council unanimously passes motion to ‘cancel ’ LRT - by ijmorlan - 11-13-2018, 04:57 PM

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