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In Philadelphia, we have "subway-surface trolleys" which go underground for a portion of their journey. I've never seen this in any other major city.
by tomphoolery 11y ago
In Philadelphia, we have "subway-surface trolleys" which go underground for a portion of their journey. I've never seen this in any other major city.
- mckiddy 11y agoMUNI in San Francisco is also like this. Very useful.
- dantheman 11y agoBoston does that.
- kaybe 11y agoFrankfurt has it. It's still called subway, but everything apart from the city center is overground.
- cema 11y agoThe Green line(s) in Boston are like that, underground in a large portion of downtown, up on the street the rest of the way. Some share the way with cars, some use a separate right-of-way: a noticeable difference in travel time and convenience, or at least the perception thereof.
- waqf 11y agoShared right of way is pretty clearly "deprecated" in Boston these days (considered unpractical, they'll never build another one and they'd be glad to get rid of the one they have). The two tram routes which have been cut in the last 50 years were both shared-right-of-way and there's only one short piece left.
- fortyeight 11y agoI think that's mainly for the river as the MFL does the same thing.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoIn Kraków, Poland, we have a single tram line like that.
- pyre 11y agoThere's a streetcar line in Toronto that does that, and a light rail system that's currently under construction that will be underground for a portion of the line.
- RyanMcGreal 11y agoThe Eglinton-Crosstown LRT in Toronto will do this when it opens.