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Or you end up with scenarios like Montreal’s, where the metro is fully enclosed with no opportunity for at-grade due to rubber wheels.
by freeone3000 3y ago
Or you end up with scenarios like Montreal’s, where the metro is fully enclosed with no opportunity for at-grade due to rubber wheels.
- yau8edq12i 3y agoMontreal did it wrong so nobody should try again? I'm struggling to see what your point is. Montreal is in north America, not Europe, in case you're not aware.
- candu 3y agoI mean, Montréal also regularly sees temperatures around -30 C in the winter, so it's not completely ridiculous to suggest this decision may be informed by fundamentally different design constraints from, say, San Francisco or many European cities [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Metro#Station_design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Metro#Station_design
- freeone3000 3y ago…except there is now also a light rail, the REM, which goes above ground including in Winter
- sofixa 3y agoYou can do covered at grade (e.g. Sofia Metro has a few km section like this - covered to protect against the cold weather in the winter, but at grade to save costs).