11-02-2015, 02:57 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-02-2015, 02:58 PM by BuildingScout.)
(11-02-2015, 02:49 PM)plam Wrote: I think this rubber tire metro thing is a crock. I spent a lot of time in my youth on Montreal's rubber tired metros. Part of the deal was that they were supposed to give a smoother ride. But they are way bumpier than all types of rail that I've been on.
Never heard a claim about smoothness. They are quieter though. I've taken the Montreal, Paris and Mexico City rubber tire metros and they are equally smooth to rail based ones but way quieter. Interestingly enough when an open competition was held in NY city for replacement technology rubber tire Bombardier metros won, but people rose up and said that screeching metros were of historical value and reversed the decision (I kid you not).