Posted Sep 22, 2012, 7:44 PM
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My Spoon Is Too Big
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Calgary
Posts: 9,162
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Doesn't it just come down to passenger load and role?
Think the Bloor subway line in toronto, with stops 6-10 min walks apart. Currently it's a subway, and someone could argue that it is acting like a streetcar with those close stops, but what they'd really be saying is that it's mimicking the stop frequency of a street car.
It seems to me that the proper tool for the job of any transit line should be obvious:
1) stop frequency based upon what role you want it to have: commuter line (one stop per community), express line (only a few stops per community), regular line (a stop every couple or few blocks
2) passenger load: shuttle sized, regular sized, articulated sized, LRT, subway
And then within 2, bus vs streetcar is just a judgement call between whether you wish to trade vehicle longevity and enhanced ride with lack of flexibility.
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