01-18-2022, 08:28 PM
(01-18-2022, 07:58 PM)ac3r Wrote:(01-18-2022, 06:01 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: The rule for on-street trackage is single track at the side, double track in the middle, except for the 2 blocks on Benton/Frederick where a single track is in the middle. The question is why. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen an attempt at an explanation. How was it “not possible” for the single track on King, for example, from Allen to the public square to be put in the middle?
How can it be a rule be a rule...then not a rule? Lol. The design of this LRT was just a complete shit show. I guess it's better than nothing...but I've travelled to dozens of countries in my life, visited countless cities with transit systems and ours is easily somewhere near the bottom of the totem pole. I hope the second line in Cambridge isn't as bad, though I'm not crossing my fingers.
My point is, you said they put the tracks in the middle except where they can’t; but really they put the tracks in the middle precisely when there are two tracks together, on-street, with the one exception for those 2 short blocks. I haven’t seen any evidence that it has anything to do with what is “possible”.
(the other exception one might think of is the stop at King & Victoria, but there you see one track on each side of the street, continuing the rule that lone tracks are at the curb and a pair of tracks are in the middle)