…electric rail option with a bus option, compare it to electric trolleybuses. If you want to compare your internal-combustion buses with a rail option, compare them to internal-combustion rail options…
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Basics: Sorting Out Rail-Bus Differences
Posted on May 7, 2023 in
…valid response to the extreme weight of commuter rail trains but more controversial as applied to light rail. These regulatory requirements may be cultural feedback effects. But rail has a…
Streetcars vs Light Rail … Is There a Difference?
Posted on March 26, 2010 in Light Rail, Melbourne, Portland, Rail Transit, Stop Spacing, Streetcars (Trams)
…downtown, is now proposing a “light rail” network called Transit City. Their explanation of it begins: Transit City is an initiative to build eight new Light Rail Transit (LRT) lines…
Honolulu: Grand Themes from the Rail Transit Wars
…rail transit outside the transit profession: that somehow, rail just makes buses disappear. The truth is more complex and interesting. Rail replaces some buses but never all of them. Major…
Why is US bus service shrinking as demand is rising?
…well as in their own right of way. Rail lines in Seattle, the Twin Cities, and Dallas are typical of light rail. “Commuter rail” services generally reach from central business…
Dissent of the Week: My Alleged “Bias” Against Rail
Posted on August 26, 2010 in Bus Rapid Transit, Dissents, Light Rail, Mobility, Philosophy, Rail Transit, Ride Quality, Streetcars (Trams), Technophilia
…rail. If I’ve ever used such a vague term as “just like” in discussing rail-bus distinctions, then I was just being lazy. I do believe, however, that there’s such a…
Houston: Great Ridership News on the New Network
…ridership from heavy bus lines to rail. The New Network removed services running parallel to light rail lines, further encouraging people in those corridors to use rail instead of bus…
Karlsruhe: A Ride on the “Tram-Trains”
…I can show you is a fairly ordinary-looking light rail vehicle running as a tram through a pedestrian precinct… … and then running in a commuter rail mode…
Bus Rapid Transit: Some Questions to Ask
…purely political judgments. Note, by the way, that this whole section applies to specific light rail projects too. For example, San Francisco’s Third Street light rail is mostly exclusive except…
light rail “for dummies?”
…to confuse intercity high-speed rail and intra-city light rail, he invites us to admire a graphically rich presentation Waterloo light rail advocates. It’s at the bottom of this post. I…