December 16, 2012 at 6:12 pm
#779814
kgdlg
Participant
World, I don’t have a technical answer for you. I just know that what you are describing is more like light rail. My guess is that streetcars are usually in pedestrian scale neighborhoods so the roads are not wide enough for dedicated rail in middle of road. And it doesn’t really make sense for frequent stops. Then you had to have middle of road platforms and the cost to build is so much more. In my mind streetcars are best on roads like CAlifornia, to move between biz districts. But Cali is too narrow for a dedicated lane for rail. Which brings me back to 35th being the road for a light rail system not streetcar for so many reasons.