Re:Los Angeles and the 'great American streetcar scandal'
by Nullabillity on Monday April 25, 2016 @04:02PM
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Rail is much more reliable then buses since it doesn't compete with car congestion, plus you can make it run much more frequently, both of which are very important for adoption.
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Re:Los Angeles and the 'great American streetcar scandal'
by coryrc on Monday April 25, 2016 @05:11PM
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Not if your rail isn't grade separated. You can just as easily build grade-separated for buses or, even easier, have bus-only lanes.
Re:Los Angeles and the 'great American streetcar scandal'
by ajmurmann on Monday April 25, 2016 @04:09PM
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Totally agree. Unless you do it like SF with its T line and have intersections that serve both train and car and give the car precedence ...
Re:Los Angeles and the 'great American streetcar scandal'
by protomyth on Monday April 25, 2016 @05:41PM
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> Rail is much more reliable then buses since it doesn't compete with car congestion
That is not true in some places. MN built its light rail in such a way that interacts with normal traffic quite a lot (including killing people because of a really badly designed interaction on a former turn). I get the feeling someone in the planning office had taken no lessons from street cars.