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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse
One thing I've never understood is why Edmonton uses LRT cars on its original lines when it doesn't have any street running...
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Really?
1. Edmonton LRT vehicles are powered from overhead catenary lines.To convert the system in order to use T-series cars used by bombardier seems very costly to fix a problem that doesn't really exist.
2. Edmonton LRT runs 5 car consists and is no where near capacity.
3. There a couple places on the Metro line with a more or less sharp turn:
https://www.google.ca/maps/@53.5482462,-113.5007489,239m/data=!3m1!1e3
4. Do you really want two different types of rolling stock on 24km system?
I don't mean to be condescending when I ask this question but have you ever ridden the LRT?