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Originally Posted by DarkKeyo
There's no land to build TOD on, and they know it. They say that because it's cheaper than saying 'subway'.
I still have never read what the benefits to low floor trains are compared to high floor ones in the context of the SELRT, a route that is mostly in a rail corridor and after that in a tunnel. I'm sure one of you knows, it may even have been mentioned in this thread when I wasn't looking. 7th Ave downtown, I can see benefits for that being low-floor, because it's like a tram, but why bother in a separate ROW? Does it save that much money?
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I think it's mostly for the neighbourhood stations from Douglasdale southward. The perceived benefit is that the stations would be a little more human-scaled. As for tunnels go, Seattle just built a tunnel section in their light rail system, which is serviced by low-floor trains. You're right though, in a tunnel or trench it doesn't particularly matter where the floor of the train is, so far as I'm aware anyway.
I'd imagine a noticeable (significant) amount would be saved on station construction.
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