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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
(08-17-2015, 03:19 PM)chutten Wrote:
(08-17-2015, 08:25 AM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: In many European systems, trams operate in effect in mixed foot and bicycle traffic, with little to no boundaries and barriers to inhibit mobility by the latter two groups. They go slow through city centres where people will be crossing the tracks, and from what I've observed, it works.

I can anecdotally confirm this is the case on Banhoffstrasse in Zurich (which I guess was a bit more streetcar than tram?), and Leiderstraat in Amsterdam
Yes and also in smaller, KW-sized communities like Innsbruck.

In Zurich giving people and public transport priority over private cars has been a much longer and much more comprehensive project than we're undertaking. See Zurich's Policies Favor People & Transit, Not Cars and especially the video. Now about 1/3 of residents use the trams (LRTs) to get around, another 1/3 use their feet, 1/4 drive and the rest bike. The relatively low car usage is achieved by limiting the number of cars that can enter the city as well as the number of parking spaces available to those who do get in. Also because walking and public transit are so convenient only about half the residents even have cars in the first place.

As attractive and refreshing as Zurich's approach may be, unfortunately it's not going to happen here any time soon.
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RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit - by ookpik - 08-17-2015, 04:49 PM
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