Re: Brisbane Light Rail,Briztram - questions

[qldspeed-spamisevil@geocities.com (qldspeed)]

On Sun, 7 Mar 1999 08:06:39 +1100, "David Bennetts"
<davibenn@pcug.org.au> wrote:
>What a great Disneyland solution!  Issue free Mickey Mouse ears for opening
>day.   There's nothing modern about monorails - you could build a steam one
>like they had in Ireland; it carried freight, if you carried a piano in one
>side of a wagon, you could balance it by putting a cow in the other side.

This should debunk the light rail myth... (and a whole lot more)

http://www.publicpurpose.com/ut-mspsp.htm
http://www.demographia.com/d-amerdr.htm
http://www.publicpurpose.com/pn-rail.htm

>
>Light rail is a modern, flexible solution - being installed in cities
>throughout North America and Britain.

Yeah right!

Don't quite get how FIXED rails in the ground could be regarded a
FLEXIBLE - certainly a lot less flexible than busses - but I digress.

And MODERN?

As I said before..... 
Ah tramways (now renamed as light rail so it doesn't sound old hat)
the very best of 1830's technology, (New York steam tram 1837) and
1881 (Berlin - first electric tram) and adapted from a technique used
in ancient Greece and Rome....

Which one looks more modern to you now?


And what makes you think we should repeat the mistakes of our American
friends - perhaps it's just a case of "infrastructure envy"

http://www.publicpurpose.com/ut-mspsp.htm
http://www.demographia.com/d-amerdr.htm
http://www.publicpurpose.com/pn-rail.htm