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Originally Posted by marmorek
The light rail vs. highway capacity argument in that article is bullshit.
Vancouver's new underground and elevated light rail line, while way too small to anticipate future demand, is still equivalent to over 10 lanes of road capacity.
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His argument really only works in American cities. Lets be honest here, LRT lines in the USA for the most part, carry very few people. So it is true that these systems are not carrying freeway loads of people.
This situation is totally different in places like Ottawa, where the busway alone carries as many people as a freeway.
He is not right at all. But he is right in the fact that many of these LRT systems do not carry a lot of people, and that they do not remove much congestion or cars off the road.
Again his argument totally falls to the ground in places like Ottawa, Calgary, etc where transit does carry freeway loads.