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If not a subway at least some form of transport that won't get stuck in gridlock. Three examples I can think of are the Wuppertal suspension railway, Las Vegas
by telesilla 2y ago
If not a subway at least some form of transport that won't get stuck in gridlock. Three examples I can think of are the Wuppertal suspension railway, Las Vegas monorail (though more of a tourist pull than for the locals) and the dedicated Metrobus lanes in Mexico City.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal_Schwebebahn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal_Schwebebahn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_Monorail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_Monorail
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City_Metrob%C3%BAs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City_Metrob%C3%BAs
What others have I missed?
(btw I never noticed before that HN can't handle UTF-8 chars in urls)
- kjkjadksj 2y agoAmerican cities of 500k people really don’t see gridlock though. Maybe a couple blocks downtown by the highway ramps thats it.
- fsckboy 2y agoyes, but wikipedia can handle unaccented https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City_Metrobus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City_Metrobus
- Gh0stRAT 2y agoYou missed Adelaide's O-Bahn, which is another way to mitigate the "buses get stuck in traffic" problem. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-Bahn_Busway https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-Bahn_Busway
- telesilla 2y agoThis is fantastic. How do the locals experience a bus suddenly in the air? Does it feel safe?
- oblio 2y agoThey don't need silly suspension railways in most places. A tram line fits perfectly in 1 lane, so that would make it 2 lanes for both ways. US lanes are so wide that it's likely 2 tram rails fit in 1.5 road lanes, with a bit of extra room for wider sidewalks (sorely needed in most of the US), bike lanes (also sorely needed in most of the US) or just general greenery (hedges would do wonders for US urban landscapes...). Of course this would require that the 3-4 lane stroads give up 2 of their carlanes so instead of doing the reasonable thing, building infrastructure costing 10x is almost universally preferred. Heck, it doesn't even need to be a tram. BRTs are good enough for a lot of cases.
- bombcar 2y agoWell-done BRTs are probably the best thing you can get for cost/benefit. And you can subway them at points if you want, and if they get super popular you can put them on rails.
- ascagnel_ 2y agoIt's only a short stretch, running the length of I-495, but the XBL in the Lincoln Tunnel is a huge reason why people bother with the bus in northern NJ. When I was commuting by bus, the inbound morning trip (with XBL) was 20-30 minutes, and the outbound evening trip (without XBL) was 30-45 minutes. https://www.panynj.gov/bridges-tunnels/en/lincoln-tunnel/xbl.html https://www.panynj.gov/bridges-tunnels/en/lincoln-tunnel/xbl...
- flyinghamster 2y agoIn Chicago, the "L" network also has stretches that run down expressway medians, along with the elevated lines and the subway sections downtown.