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> Bonus, no trains or tracks to maintain! I'm honestly curious: what's the maintenance cost differential between train tracks and road? And between trains and

• kuschku 11y ago
  Roads for busses are far more expensive to maintain than light rail. Road maintenance of asphalt road for heavy use (like bus lanes) is so expensive that all the bus stations here are using the same road-building techniques the romans already used, and they still go through the stones in a few decades. Just for my city the estimated savings are in the amount of 19 million EUR for switching the main bus lines to light rail. And it would improve quality.
  • RightWingRabble 11y ago
    Do you have a link to the numbers? I'm curious about the actual costs, since what you're saying contradicts Shivetya. Without numbers and sources, I have no idea who's actually right.
    • npsimons 11y ago
      To be fair, Shivetya didn't back up his claim either; in fact he almost made it sound like roads and buses cost nothing with his last sentence, which is exactly why I asked that inconvenient question.
    • kuschku 11y ago
      I’ve been trying to find the case study for a few months anymore, but since the website redesign in 2004 it’s been less accessible, and recently I can’t find it anymore at all. If I find it, I’ll link it. Obviously, it depends on the actual situation. Replacing routes where busses are running as rare as every 10 or 15 min, like suburban routes, makes no sense. But downtown routes where articulated and bi-articulated busses are running every minute, and they still can’t cope with the demand? Well, that’s exactly what light rail was made for.