what's the current project in your city?
Lille, renovation of the linea 1 (métro)
Before : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96zialgSxk0
After : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVmrPgTSIhg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGAH9sY6uWQ
(Linea 2 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCQxGJnx_-8)
Trying to fix the Greensborough railway after someone hijacked a train and derailed 4 of its carriages at the siding
Only absolutely brilliant projects.
Like installing Traffic Lights where it makes no sense and causing traffic jams. Building an insanely huge roundabout in a simple branch. Make the main road narrow for no reason. Forcing all heavy traffic to go through that bumpy old side road where I live. Build an awful bike lane which suddenly ends at the most dangerous curve. And force bikers who are stupid enough to use it to cross the road there.
Renovating Newcastle Central metro station in a scheme that will close it from 8PM Sunday to Thursday until mid to late 2016 and will cost £6m.
To make it look the same but with new panels and a new board
>>897336
CROSSRAIL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e-PW3QlJQY
>>897352
Too bad the train is still a piece of shit even in that picture
Ion LRT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_rapid_transit
lol no grade separation
It's pretty big considering the kind of service we have now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URZ5E-t8SHM
We're also getting a smartcard system, which is pretty impressive for a transit agency which gets only 15 million riders a year. One of the neat things about it, is that if you take three rides, it'll automatically load a day pass on your card, so you don't have to spend any extra money if you're not sure you're going to take more than three trips.
>>897363
It's 2015, every shitty local bus operator has an Oyster card equivalent system...
>>897359
>clearly has its own lane
>is going to reuse old subdivisions for a large chunk of its routing
Do you not understand what grade separation is?
>>897336
Currently under construction:
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederation_Line
The long term master plan:
>https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=zXEGZBhLGPgA.kQW6-uCtwU0E
>>897369
Not in the US. Hell, even the MTA in New York City doesn't have one.
>>897359
That's a tram/streetcar not a rapid transit
Do you want to lightfail like murika? Because trying to treat trams/streetcars as cheap trains is how you fail like murika.
>>897377
Actually outside of the NY MTA who doesn't have a smart card by now? The other big transit agencies and even smaller the agencies have smart card systems by now.
>>897378
>half the system runs on old subdivisions
>the other half runs on its own RoW on city streets
>hurr not rapid transit
Shut the fuck up.
>>897380
The vehicles do not have the capacity of a rapid transit
The vehicles are trams/streetcars
>>897510
FUCK OFF
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>>897379
Philly still uses tokens.
>>897524
They're being phased out with the Key system.
>>897336
Currently have 2 on the go here in Toronto.
Spadina Subway Extension to Vaughn. Should be done in 2017. It was supposed to be finished in 2016 but everyone in this city is incompetent.
Eglinton Crosstown LRT. Should be done by 2021. The only project since the 70's that actually makes sense.
Finch West LRT begins utility relocation next year. It's completion date is set at 2021 as of now.
Scarborough Subway Extension starts in 2019, its completion date is set at 2024. It's a in urban planning and will be a bigger one when it opens.
We also have the Sheppard East LRT on the books to begin construction in 2021 but given how the city and province work you may as well consider it dead.
>>897565
*Scarborough Subway Extension is an Urban Planning disaster and will be a bigger one when it opens.
Tampere light rail.
It will replace the overcrowded bus line 3 from Hervanta to Lielahti via Downtown.
Also they are building a short section between TAYS and Downtown.
Helsinki, Hello.
The metro is extending to west. First phase should be ready in summer 2016, the second phase (started) should finish maybe in 2020.
Big question is should it be fully automatic; previous contract with Siemens was cancelled due schedule slips and cost overruns. Also, foamers everywhere despise the decision to make the platforms only two units long whereas existing sections have three unit long platforms. We also pretty much run only three units long trains there and they get the ridership justify it. Short platforms have been seen as short sighted decision for minimal cost savings.
We also have separately branded trunk bus lines under planning, one that was long the sole trunk route (550) has been around from the nineties, another opened this year (560) and few more are in planning.
Beyound that, there's tram Bridge over the bay to a new housing developments. For a time it seemed to be heading to cancellation. Bad mounts told it was because the green party opposed single car lanes to be added to the bridge but now it again seems to be in fast lane for building. Maybe 2019 or so.
There's Jokeri tram, which has been around as a plan as long as the original trunk busroute to which the plans were reduced. Always gets postponed by a few years at time.
And the Pisara ("droplet") rail loop under the city center. Was found out to be terrible usage money and was indefinitely postponed (not cancelled, mind you), but now the current chamber may investigate, if state housing fund surplus money could be diverted to it. (So called ARAVA-system.)
I don't think any of the speculative stuff will happen, because we are fastly pulling the Greece here beause the three aces can't get anything done.
>>897636
But the light rail (based on Karlsruhe model) was abandoned! Now you are only having, word for word "modern city tramway".
>>897641
good
lightfail cannot train
use lightrail as what it is: modern streetcar/tram
dont just build a single short route either
you need a number routes and of some length
>>897643
It's going to be about 18 km of double track.
Better than some of those 3-4 km fails I've seen in the USA. Real cars too, not something that's mechanically equivalent to Gotha G4.
>>897643
It will be about 20-22km long line while in 'Muricas cities are building 5km long downtown lines.
Also when it expands to Airport and neighbouring municipalities it will be have a bretty good network of trams.
imo proper subway line would be better
>>897655
I don't think I'll be alive the day that reaches the airport. Plus, are there such populace masses that would not fit into a coach? As such, it would be very expensive PR.
Now, the second phase, if any will surely go to Pirkkala direction.
Also, proper subway? You guys are like 250k people! Even Helsinki wouldn't deserve a proper subway. Maybe some light rail tunnels, but the current kind of heavy metro is unnecessary.
>>897636
Are they using broad gauge or standard gauge for the system?
>>897643
Fuck off trainguy.
>>897665
Standard.
>>897663
But for example Lausanne has 2 metro lines but the city has 130k residents and 250k in the region. Though it's Switzerland where people use public transport more than basic anon fucks his mom.
Bus line 3 is maybe busier than any line in Helsinkikekton. It's always full and we even tried to add more buses to the line but the buses are getting still awfully full.
The light rail also would connect really popular universities, colleges, sport stadiums, living places, popular shopping complexes and a amusement park together.
Also the city has bought unused forests and plants for residential use near the planned sections. These new residential areas will bump the population up to 300k and if the neightbouring cities do the same the Tampere region will be about 500k big.
For example the new Vuores -neighbourhood near south tip of the line is one of these new areas (though the line needs expansion).
We have a half done fuckhueg subway line and absolutely no money to continue construction on its main portion, the only part that actually makes any sense at all.
Also tram line across the city, linking up both systems, which has been furiously fought against by NIMBYs and who knows if this time it'll finally get done.
>>897336
We got an extreme housing shortage, people are paying 300k-500k for houses that usually went fot for well below 100k. The last i heard was that 10000 houses are being built right now but i guess nothing short of 20000 would satisfy the need.
>>897336
Noord/Zuidlijn
a new metro line that will connect the south and north parts of ansterdam
well i say ''new''
they started in 2003 and will be finished in 2017
>>897701
What city?
They just added an extra car on two trains starting today. All trains should be 4 cars by the first quarter, they only have 3 cars right now.
>>897737
forgot img
>>897730
Why doesn't Amsterdam just use high speed boats and create some kind of Rapid Boat Transit system and utilize their canals for something more than tourist Gondolas?
>>897758
they got some ferries, but those just aren't as efficient
>>897758
Wake. Boats can go fast, but bus-size boats can't go fast in canals or harbors.
>>897565
CROSSTOWNCROSSTOWN
My favourite video about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovMnyoJfj0k
Flyover:
https://youtu.be/8LgFsbFB4jU
The Dallas - Houston HSR making progress. The bad thing is that it won't end up in downtown Houston. The good thing is that this will likely encourage the development of two major light rail expansions to the Houston station (one to downtown, the other to uptown).
>90 min travel time (airline flight is 60 min)
>~300km/h / 18mph
>competitive with airline prices (~$200?)
>will use N700 shinkansen or something
>2021-2022 completion date
>>897855
>People are still deluded enough to think this will actually happen.
Hey everyone, don't reply to the above poster. Any time even a single person replies to that, the thread turns into an HSR one, and that's not what this thread is about. So please, hold your urges, and do not reply, thank you.
>>897855
High speed rail is the best
Down with low speed rail and airplanes
>>897906
Short air travel ought to be banned. It is incredibly wasteful. The amount of flights should be reduced by at least 50%, leaving just long distance flights.
Two new metro lines (31 new stations), plus a bunch of new trains.
Finally moving away from rubber tires.
>>897910
>building a line isolated from the rest of the network
Gr8 idea
>>897912
What are you on about?
>>897914
>two different systems entirely (steel and rubber)
That new line is going to be technically isolated from the rest of the metro system.
>>897912
What's wrong with it? As long as it is compatible with people (ie walking on and off, perhaps sitting down) then it is fine.
>>897924
>What's wrong with it?
>redundant maintenance facilities
>impossible to interoperate lines
>different maintenance crews for both types of systems
>different rolling stock types for each system
It's stupid. Stick to one system or else you end with the same types of problems systems like the NYC and Buenos Aires subways have.
>>897926
>being this obvious with your b8
>>>/b/
>>897679
>Lausanne has 2 metro lines but the city has 130k residents
m1 is literally a light rail and m2 was extended from a rack railway that was built in a segregated tunnel because that happened to be the fastest way uphill.
Neither runs "proper subway"-sized trains, but as the city size doesn't require such capacities the system does its job well.
If the city was on flat land, they would probably have gone with a normal surface light rail/streetcar/whatever.
LIRR East Side Access.
Instead of going to Penn Station, we go can go to Grand Central as well.
Cincy Streetcar is progressing nicely.
>>898489
Any funded plans to expand it? Cincy needs to go the Portland route. It's useless to have just a 3.5 mile streetcar loop if there is nothing to connect it to. Have a few light rail lines which go out into the neighborhoods so they can get downtown and transfer to the streetcar once they get downtown.
>>898489
>single track streetcar loop
How cheap do you ahve to be to not make it double tracked?
>>898489
>small streetcar loop in gentrified downtown
JUST
![e0b2dc11a01ca500896d64705e410153[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/J8GgClh.png "e0b2dc11a01ca500896d64705e410153[1].png")
Barnum Station infill stop on New Haven Line.
http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/10-million-for-proposed-Barnum-train-station-in-6591713.php#photo-8855351
Still in the design phase so there's no pretty pictures to show, but it will go roughly here.
>>898588
Its just the first phase. Right now they're trying to get funding together to expand it north to Uptown and the University.
>>898630
well with that massive surface transit bill congress just passed they should get funding if they aren't complete tards about it.
>>897336
Too damn many that just can't get off the ground...
Start with the MMPT, the long wanted central transit hub for Atlanta. Fills in underused, open wounds in downtown, adding park space, retail, offices, TOD space, and a central hub for MARTA Buses / Trains, Commuter rail, Streetcars, Regional Bus lines, Amtrak, and even possible high-speed rail. The state won't fund any transit other than buses, and this has been sitting inactive for a year or so.
>>898645
Next is the streetcar network that the city funds, and runs into the ground. Honestly, it aint a bad plan, but the city is doing all it can to loose the trust of the people. Even supporters are beginning to jump ship. The FTA chastised MARTA and CoA over the crap job that was being done, and so we lost TIGER funding for the much needed expansion to the Beltline. People don't want to pay for expansion, but without growth, the Streetcars will fail.
>>898645
>Atlanta
>Doing anything smart ever
>>898646
Then there's MARTA's ambitious expansion plans that the outlying cities seem bent on killing for no other reason than they're more willing to fund generic road work over mass-transit expansion.
>>898648
That's hardly ambitious.
>>898648
Finally, there's the dead Georgia Commuter Rail plan that's been around since 2009, and had it's first phase funded. The state fucked up and lost the federal funding by not spending it. Now the state funds commuter buses (actually really successful, but still stuck in rush-hour traffic), and MARTA is the only one seriously pursuing commuter rail along the originally funded corridor. My hope is that they expand off the new line and add more basic commuter rail into the outer suburbs where heavy rail isn't feasible, and existing infrastructure makes it possible.
>>898649
It's ambitious when you consider the outer metro is rather hostile to the system in general, and the inner metro bickers over who gets rail with money no one wants to give up.
>>897767
Sydney has ferries running on a route to Parramatta River. They are catamarans, with long, thin hulls designed to minimise wake so they CAN travel at good speed.
>>898651
>actually really successful
>but still stuck in rush-hour traffic
>>898645
Why can't they just get loans? Wouldn't the office space pay for the construction costs eventually?
>>898692
Successful as in, there's such a need for commuter-based transit for where thy serve that the buses are constantly packed, not that they're the best at it.
>>898702
All of the designs are with the State, who doesn't want to proceed. Honestly, we don't even need commuter trains to make it initially successful. A short Streetcar extension and all of the bus agencies / companies who would use it would fill the halls with riders. The mall, parks, and offices would fill in a lot of unused /underused space around downtown while supporting the growing want for people to move back into the city's core.
That and the project was slated to cost $1.5 - $2 Bill. , so, they would need a lot of loans / bonds / private investments to finance the project. I should be able to get close to paying for itself if it was considered a TOD, where the taxes from new properties on the project went to paying O&M and loans.
MRT1, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (target completion: next year)
New LRVs for Malaysia's LRT extension project
New innovia ART 300 for Malaysia's LRT extension project
>>898489
lol that guy on skype
Building the second light-rail line which is converting existing portions of the BRT and digging a tunnel under Downtown.
>>897336
>After : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVmrPgTSIhg
Metro with wheels? how is it in winter?
>>899823
>wheels
tires
>>899799
Boston????
>>899799
>mfw council has already given the go-ahead for phase 2 and 3 of the LRT system
>>899851
Ottawa.
>>899884
Lucky you guys
>mfw in Toronto we can't even utter the word LRT without people in the burbs blowing their tops.
At least it looks like phase 2 of the Crosstown may become a reality once Tory's SmartTrack report shows his idea is unusable garbage.
>>897377
Chicago's Ventra card system says hi.
Budapest, new tram network on the western half of the city.
Pic related, we bought 47 new tramcars while building the tracks. Also, 12 of them will be the longest trams of the world.
They're redoing the fucking highway in the middle of the holiday season. So traffic jams
>>899946
Hows that been going? Didn't they release the app like today or something?
Stockholm.
Citybanan commuter rail tunnel to separate local trains from regional ones. Space for 50% more commuter trains and 150% more regional ones.
Construction start was stalled about 15 years citing expenses, the thing will enter service in late 2017.
It finally broadens the national chokepoint, the "wasp's waist" and has already caused a domino effect on the rest of the country with capacity upgrades being needed pretty much everywhere.
>>900142
Muh picture.
There's some light rail projects in various states of being stalled, aswell as metro extensions. Wanting metro where light rail would suffice, but refusing to build things that were planned in the 1960s and needed from the 1970s on.
>>900143
>There's some light rail projects in various states of being stalled, aswell as metro extensions.
>Wanting metro where light rail would suffice, but refusing to build things that were planned in the 1960s and needed from the 1970s on.
aint that sweet
y.t. Helsinki
What about bus line 4 light rail, is that how serious a proposal?
I've also seen the "6 lines" proposal. Seems quite unlikely just for the looks of it. Were that reality in 2030, serious planning should be on the way today.
>>900153
This one is on progress but no ways certain.
>>900154
This one is the one that always get postponed for a few years at the time.
Were it built now, before the bridge, it would increase the active line lenght (excluding depot track and such) by more than 50%.
It's also important that it would introducre two directional cars. I think it would be important to have a small fleet of two direction capacity, then extensions could be build when needed without having to wait that the area where the ultimate terminus is gets developed. (I'm thinking of Hernesaari here.)
The Purple line into west LA
>public transportation in southern california in general
They are construction the north/south-line atm... well they do this like serveral years now
>>897912
Actually one of the lines already runs on rails so it shouldn't be such a big deal. It wasn't for that one.
>>899924
Once people start riding LRT, people will change their minds. (oh god hopefully or I'll just die of dehydration from all my tears)
>>900153
The social democrats tore up the old net and have an aversion for anything new within city limits.
The liberals are more positive to streetcars, but the business lobby doesn't want them.
The county managed to extend the inner city tourist tramway a few hundred meters before the city decided that extensive renovations of the Sergels Torg roundabout was needed. Reaching the central station will take a while.
Outside city limits there's various projects that do progress, but keep getting hit by budget cuts. Among them a plan to supply rail transport to Sweden's largest shopping district.
At the other side of town a branch towards Kista does progress because some people want to build a mall, but the zoning requires them to build parts of a tramway bridge through the area. The project is otherwise stalled because it passes through the Sundbyberg municipality and they don't want to pony up.
>>900290
As for the inner city.
>Planned light rail route to be finished in 2014.
>>900288
To cater different lines, each line has their own specification (different track gauge, different width, different length, different electrification, etc)
They're opening this new extension which goes from nowhere through nowhere to nowhere instead of doing something useful, and they're naming the terminus after a part of the city that is beyond its coverage.
>>900162
for comparsion, how it looks atm
![Screen%20Shot%202014-04-29%20at%2010.15.54%20PM[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/HmI1JTJ.jpg "Screen%20Shot%202014-04-29%20at%2010.15.54%20PM[1].jpg")
I will take things that will never happen for $1000 alex.
>>900398
It could happen. I mean who the fuck would have thought All Aboard Florida could have happened 20 years ago?
Give the project to some multinational real estate developer who proposes to fund it and the "muh free market" obsessed political class can no longer cock block the Bay Link.
This is about 3 decades overdue. We need at least three more lines like this around the city. Hopefully passing a vote for a second downtown line next year.
>>900142
>>900143
In Helsinki we are planning our version of Citybanan called Pisararata (swe. Centrumslingan).
>>900290
To think of it, guess what city you guys are seriously reminding me of?
Paris! Peripheral tramways that are auxiliary to Metro system.
>>900159
Im pretty sure methane is going to be a major problem.
>>900428
The plans for the Link system are fantastic so far. I'm wondering though, are they all designed like subway lines? I don't understand why they would use light rail vehicles if the whole system is built as a subway.
The Southwest LRT / Green Line extension in Minnesota recently had the cost balloon $350 million dollars to put it at just under #2 billion.
Not a fan of just creating commuter lines out to the suburbs. Just fuels urban sprawl and subsidizes suburban lifestyles even more.
>>900459
Are there any maps of current lightrail/streetcar routes and maps on future lines that are pretty much underway or we know are coming? I hear the Seattle gov is racking in billions in surpluses so I am a little surprised the city government is going all out while the times are good.
>>900432
This project shoudn't be built now. Too expensive compared to benefits, if any.
Plus. The switching arrangements, as now proposed, woudn't do anything for the Pasila-bottleneck and woud only allow running from East mainline to North mainline, which would seriously affect the reliability and accuracy of the whole local commuter rail system. We see in tramlines 2 and 3 how well circle lines work.
>It should go underground before Pasila.
>have some serious switchwork in Pasila, to allow running in both directions ("but muh second metro line needs that underground space!")
>Possible have some extra platforms in the center, for timetable equalization and fault tolerance
>Which all would make it severely more expensive.
The city of Honolulu is building its first metro line, assuming the city government doesn't fuck it up (again.)
>>900432
Ah, I think Helsinki's situation is a little closre to Citytunneln in Malmö and Västlänken in Gothenburg.
Doing something about terminals, or "sack stations" as we call them.
In Malmö's case, the tunnel multiplied ridership and made politicians look at rebuilding and reusing some old railroads for commuter service.
In Gothenburg's case, Västlänken, the thing will be hellishly expensive as the town's built on mud, but it'll tidy up capacity problems on most branches.
Not much. I live in a town with 100k people and everyone uses their cars(pretty much the only option). Also, using trains in long haul transport costs usually about 2x-4x as much as the gas for a car(travelling alone). It's kind of sad, but understandable. Some sort of reasonable regional train network would be nice though.
>>900459
There are some sections at-grade. The initial segment was built at-grade through a neighborhood that opposed elevated tracks (they really wanted a subway, but that was too expensive). This segment is a bottleneck that will affect capacity for quite some time.
The planned expansion to the eastside will also contain some at-grade crossings but for the most part the entire system will be elevated or tunneled. The flexibility of light rail made this possible.
Running at-grade through downtown is simply not an option but once you leave the city, if built correctly, at-grade can be built fairly reliably.
>>900532
I don't know if the city is racking in billions in surpluses but voters are overwhelmingly in favor of raising taxes for transit.
I wasn't able to find an accurate map of funded/planned lines that included everything. It's difficult because there are so many agencies, funding sources and competing stakeholders at play.
The streetcar will likely continue to expand slowly through LIDs and grants. The next major subway line should be Ballard to West Seattle via downtown and we'll be voting on it next year. It's going to be a massive expense but Seattle voters will likely approve it. Unfortunately we get very little to no support from the state.
>>900432
So is that loop being built to better serve an area or system or is it being built in order to increase throughput?
>>900628
Aren't they building a part of the line in the middle of an empty field?
>>899990
Haven't tried it out since I have a Windows phone. I do know it allows you to buy tickets for the commuter rail system and that it got decent reviews on the Google Play store.
Being Windows phone owner is suffering.
>>900726
They've built a lot more than that already.
>>897379
St. Louis?
>>900459
Why would you use actual subway trains in 2015? Modern light rail vehicles are just as good, plus you don't strictly need to build a subway if you don't actually need one. Best of both worlds.
You can even go full low floor if you like, for even less intrusive street stations.
>>900432
I just want commuter rail tunnel to West Harbour.
This is what the metro plan originally called for. Now the red line is almost done and the right topmost part of the blue line is served by commuter rail branch.
>>900725
Throughput. It would route local commuter trains away from the central station's terminating platforms. There are 17 total, but the switch yard before it doesn't take full advantage off that fact.
Only three stations quite close to each other.
>>900760
Nope. You literally aren't even allowed to dream about that, sorry no.
Even the surface rail connection that used to go there wasn't deemed worthy to spare and you on the other hand would want to drive BOTH north and west commuter trains there....
![SLG%201_study%20area[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ODu0rEF.jpg "SLG%201_study%20area[1].jpg")
>>899851
>Boston????
Haha, Silver line is never going to get to Boylston under.
Silver is getting extended to Chelsea though.
![1280px-Green_Line_Extension.svg[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/5t2fBoT.jpg "1280px-Green_Line_Extension.svg[1].png")
>>900771
And the Greenline is getting extended to Somerville.
Too bad the contractor went 'Lol, remember that price I quoted you [MBTA]? I'm gonna jack it up 50% because I feel like it.'
>>900771
>Bus """""""""""""Rapid""""""""""""" Transit
>>900868
That's nice but I was referring specifically to Boston' silver line, which claims to be BRT but if you look at that map, more than half of it is in "mixed traffic" i.e. regular bus service.
>>897336
NYC Second Avenue Subway
Only 100+ years in the making!
The first phase will be ready any day now... yessiree....
>>900778
aren't we getting some new cars for the orange/red/green lines? or was that just a big maybe.
>>900708
>Running at-grade through downtown is simply not an option but once you leave the city, if built correctly, at-grade can be built fairly reliably.
So basically Seattle is building a Stadtbahn system?
I think you have to hand it to Denver, which currently has five light rail lines under construction, most of which will open in 2016. When that happens, the system will double from 48 miles to 98.7 miles. Is there another US city that would vote themselves a tax increase for something like this?
>>900983
Seattle has pretty ambitious plans.
Fastrack is really impressive though.
>>900983
>>900988
Pretty easy to build tracks in the middle of 6-lane highway medians. Most of what's being built is outside Denver city limits and is meant for park-and-riding. I don't know anyone who lives in Denver and takes light rail - everyone who does is the typical suburban 9 to 5 commuter.
Seattle's light rail will completely change inner-city travel. It will be impossible to live in the city without using Link. A second line between Ballard and West Seattle via downtown will be killer.
>>901001
I know know who you hang with but most people I know in Denver take light rail when it's available. The trains are pretty crowded during rush hours and the riders aren't just the poors like in some cities. If I'm going downtown, I leave my car at the PnR since parking and the mall shuttle are both free. Most of the sports teams are close to Union Station, and it's very common for people to take the train down for dinner and a game.
I don't think there's any comparison between Denver and Seattle with regards to transportation. The metro Denver area has a decent road system and Fastracks just makes it easier. Adding light rail in Seattle is like trying to resuscitate a corpse.
A new BRT line that will almost certainly be neutered by nimbys, if VTA doesn't manage to fuck it up themselves first.
>>899473
Looking good irl
>>901061
How can you neuter a bus rapid transit line?
>>901360
>>901369
Really, really big pair of clippers?
Second entrance to one of the country's most croweded railway stations, only 30 years late.
As if Sweden ever made sense.
>>900302
>tfw still no coverage of Dornberg, Sennestadt, Heepen and Jöllenbeck
>>901369
By not building dedicated lanes.
>>901808
Elevated or at grade?
>>897336
fixing the tracks here, only the people from the ghetto keep stealing the fucking tracks
>>902180
How the fuck do you steal railroad tracks theyre fuck heavy?
>>902215
Retard strength
>>900916
Yes, and there was even an internet poll for the liveries of the new cars. Too bad someone hacked the poll.
http://blog.mass.gov/transportation/mbta/mbta-new-subway-cars-exterior-designs-update/
>>902419
Is CAF building everything? What happened to that Chinese contractor?
>>902419
>still not buying full low-floor trams
>still not buying 4 car trains
Goddamn it.
>>902431
>Nah, it's not like the whole population would use the "modorized kart", so a low floor middle section is also perfectly valid and economical thing to do.
You get 100 years mature technology compared to some horrible fixed truck, no axles thingies that have been attempted and have failed in everywhere but line-straight track.
>>902430
The chinese contractor is just doing the red and orange cars. CAF is doing the greenline trolleys.
>>902431
>MBTA gotta be a special snowflake
The T has started coupling the married pairs together in service though, so 4 and 6 car sets are becoming more common.
>Still only allowing front door boarding on surface stations
>>902467
>and have failed in everywhere but line-straight track.
The technology has been perfected for a while now. Come up to Toronto and try out their Flexity.
>>902095
At grade, anon. They won't even allow elevated railroad tracks around these parts.
>>898584
Phase B will connect loop to the college campus/zoo that is on a hill that overlooks the city.
The question is how to climb the city hills without using a street that is heavily congested.
>>898644
>if they aren't complete tards about it
in cincy, anything is possible
>>897336
>métro
cute desu
>>902467
>You get 100 years mature technology compared to some horrible fixed truck, no axles thingies that have been attempted and have failed in everywhere but line-straight track.
all of my keks
fixed-bogie articulated trams work perfectly well you shithead
Hallandsås.
Project initiated in 1991.
Digging started in 1992.
Digging aborted in 1997 because the rock turned into shit.
Digging resumed in 2003, thanks bureaucracy.
Tunnel breakthrough in 2013
Rail, electricity and signalling finished in 2015.
Enters service next week.
>>904730
Better late than never!
>>897341
where on the planet is this perfect place?
>>903092
Can't they rebuild the old funicular system that used to carry trams uphill?
A bunch of new stations for the narrow-gauge surburban line the council likes to call a metro to satisfy their city-peen, a new bus station, right next to the main train station, that will replace the glorified bus shelter we currently have, and of course, the HSR lines which will probably be finished when hell freezes over.
This line is getting extended and the next line down the street (not shown) goes through this building. There's not much to see though. Maybe once they finish construction it will look better.
>>905451
Houston, btw. You can see where the other light rail line passes through the building here.
New airport rail train for Kuala Lumpur
>>900778
>Too bad the contractor went 'Lol, remember that price I quoted you [MBTA]? I'm gonna jack it up 50% because I feel like it.'
HAHA, MBTA just canceled all the contracts going forward. FU WSK.
>>897910
Here's the final design of the rolling stock BTW. That render was kinda sweet but the 1:1 model of that design looked like shit so they changed the entire front.
>>897915
So are the lines 4 and 4A from the older lines 1, 2 and 5. It's not a big deal, we have enough rolling stock of each type to keep all lines working.
>>897930
>redundant maintenance facilities
There is one mantainance/storage facility per line anyways, even in those that have the same type of stock than others.
>impossible to interoperate lines
Not a real need here. Trains are only transferred from one line to another only when it's necessary to reassignate them. In fact, current efforts are towards unifying the stock in each line as much as possible.
>different maintenance crews for both types of systems
the training of different crews might generate adittional costs. You have a point here. However it's not much a big deal either since they all work in different lines and facilities anyways.
>different rolling stock types for each system
Not a problem by itself. See >>905633
>>905635
I didn't realize the system was already so fragmented. I guess it makes sense in that case.
Still seems a bit silly to me to build a modern system and not centralize it as much as possible in order to keep labour and maintenance costs down.
>>905629
That's hot as hell
>>905588
>looking it up
>3 fucking billion for 7km of surface track
Wtf guys, wtf. I EU that would have been around 300-500 million € project, tops.
>>905725
That's a ridiculous price tag even for the States.
>>905735
Has the MBTA ever had a single project that was on time and on budget? They must have one of the poorest records ever when it comes to project management.
>>905736
Well, was that that then, or is the contractor still expected to come out with new bid offer to restore the project?
http://www4.goteborg.se/prod/Intraservice/Namndhandlingar/SamrumPortal.nsf/7FC2CDE08D614CE3C1257F18002D2A4E/$File/%C2%A7%20287.2%20Ytterligare_spar_Hisingen_Rapport4_2015_20151203.pdf
Gothenburg, new tramways (purple) on the Hisingen island, to support the current (black) line.
>>906082
Looks pretty cool.
Vhy bother making the bend through Västergord, though? Looks rather sparcely populated.
>>906102
There are no stops there, so it'll fly past fairly fast. Also fewer people to stall the project for stupid reasons.
>>905745
Contracts are being sent out for rebid. The old construction manager is toast.
New electric loco, Malaysia
>>906435
GE loco?
>>906435
long loco is long
>>906435
Is that a dual voltage unit?
>>906479
Nyet. 25kV AC overhead catenary line.
>>906438
Nyet. Malaysia only use GE diesel loco
Right...
Upgraded Class 81 EMU, Malaysia
New Class 93 intercity train, Malaysia
>>905735
>3 billion
Boston could be the sole funder of FERISTSA -project.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FERISTSA
>>906791
Kinda looks like british class 323
>>906795
That looks quite nice, who's the maker?
>>906816
CSR Zhuzhou
Lafayette, LA
probably nothing besides putting wi-fi in the buses so people use them
99% sure it won't work
>>906817
Never thought chinks would make a good looking train set.
>>906880
They've had nearly a decade importing multiple different European trainsets, they're bound to have found a style that works. My personal favorite is the CRH6
>>906902
But KOP is the absolute worst and last project the region should be prioritizing, and it's only because other local politicians don't give a shit about transit-deprived or deficient areas with better potential than KOP. With current development patterns and NIMBYism as it stands, it will be little more than a glorified blue-collar shuttle replacing for the 124/125 bus. The Navy Yard is only justifiable if the developer fronts a significant of the capital cost, because they're inherently shooting themselves in the foot with the amount of attached parking they want to include -- the FTA is not going to be happy about that.
The chinks really shilling it out for joint Malaysia-Singapore HSR project, since they didn't have leverage on this, compared to similar projects in Indonesia and Thailand (where the chinks offered them long-term,low-interest loan to build HSR)
>>907013
The Indonesians are going with Chinese tech? I'm somewhat considering how they how much Japanese tech they already have.
>>907014
Cost related I guess since all the Japanese trains are used. They sure as hell wouldn't be able to afford a brand new Shinkansen and the JRs are unlikely to sell them used ones
>>907016
The JRs are desperate for international clients though.
>>907016
Cost aside, the chinks offered better loan terms (and I also suspect that they are building the damn thing at a lost). Besides, afaik what the indonesian are doing right now is a medium-speed rail rather than true HSR
>>907030
JR doesn't build the train tho.
So far, Japan already had Taiwan as their client (though stupid decision on taiwan part to use european signalling system on Japanese train really gave the japs bad name), while the UK ,Thailand and India are also opting for japanese-made high speed trains.
>>906795
What is top speed of this thing?
>>906950
I honestly don't know which one is which.
>>907039
Max speed:180km/h
Max operation speed: 160km/h
>>907036
It's due to the butthurt over Eurotrain. They gave a concession to the euro consortium so as to not make them feel completely left out. Maybe if they didn't do a bloody ICE Duplex frankentrain stuck together with duct tape. If they just sold a plain ICE or TGV, they would've had much better chances
Next to a JR500 or JR700, this thing just looks cheap and lacking polish. And at a technical level it actually was cobbled togehter. Could still go fast I guess
>>907074
What's the story behind that monster? Who was the moron who thought that would be a good idea?
Made in Indonesia listrik train
Majulah KBRI
Indonesia new train for KAI persero
Made in indonesia loco for ekspor
>>907036
Thailand use China CHR2G bullet train.
Flipland new metro
>>908361
shit that's cute
Lund, Sweden, 5.5km tramway. Construction start in 2016, enter service in 2019.
This may end up as an interurban project covering chunks of the formerly railroad-dense Scania.
http://www.sparvaglund.se/sv/langs-linjen/
>>910539
Huh, that's pretty nice for such a small city. It's part of a larger metro area, right?
>>910539
Sweet, have you decided on the rolling stock yet?
1 and 2 are pretty much complete
>>910584
Lund is a satellite town to Malmö, which just has a heritage tramway but some sketchy plans. Up north in Scania there's the city of Helsingborg which aslo has some plans (pic related). At some point, the Malmö-Lund tramways will interconnect because of their proximity.
There's an intro video, in english https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uEYhTfSHO8
>>910602
Doesn't appear to be chosen, likely picking the same base models used in Stockholm, Gothenburg or Norrköping. The commuter trains in Scania are a shorter version of the ones in Stockholm.
>>910719
A joint purchase with one of the bigger cities does make sense.
It bould be Bombardier Flexcity then, most likely? Too bad...
>>910724
I think CAF is a good contender. Stockholm has bought an assload of them and the worst problems are ironed out.
Gothenburg is also looking for new sets as their shiny new Sirios started rusting.
>>910770
>Gothenburg is also looking for new sets as their shiny new Sirios started rusting.
>buying rolling stock from breda
>ever
The NSW state government is building a light rail link between the Sydney CBD and my university. Of course it still won't be finished by the time I graduate.
Very soon in the Spring, Kansas City will have it's very own novelty trolley, for god knows what reason. It's not a viable transport option, and demand is so low it's going to be free. Most of the population that uses KC lives out in the suburbs, so it's not like even if this were expanded beyond it's simple two mile route it would be much more useful.
>>911346
Unless I can't find industrial training, I'll be out by the end of 2017
The tram is seriously going to fuck things up though if the gladys/constance steam engine decides to cut the 891/895 services. Students will be competing with everyone else to cram onto them and they'll be full all the way. Never mind not even having enough capacity for students on their own
>>911358
At a glance; the most obvious problem is that it doesn't continue to the airport on a bridge over the Missouri river.
Other than that, Kansas City suffers from the usual problems of low-density sprawl making it hard to get ridership and no low-hanging fruit in terms of places people want to go.
>>911432
>At a glance; the most obvious problem is that it doesn't continue to the airport on a bridge over the Missouri river.
?????
KCI is around 8 miles away from downtown and would have added hundreds of millions to the project. Are you thinking of Charles B Wheeler Airport in north K.C? Because that is a small private airport, no commercial airlines operate there, would be a useless stop. In terns of places people want to go, extending the streetcar down main to 47th st at the country club plaza would have been a big deal.
>>910719
I only found this, with my tvångsvenskan so I take the north-sout line is currently in planning stages of "foamer utopia".
What about Uppsala, have they decided to go with the bus option?
>>911470
Uppsala seems to be stalled.
The Green party wants them, the Agrarian party does not.
At the end of they day they appear to wait for State money.
Mississauga, Ontario.
MiWay (Mississauga Transit) is significantly overhauling the bus network over the next five years. They want to remove duplication and underperforming routes, whilst straightening out some routes and improving frequency. More express routes will be implemented and existing ones will be improved.
Current Map:
http://www7.mississauga.ca/Documents/TW/miway/servicechange/20151026/WeekdayMap.pdf
Future Map (2020):
http://www7.mississauga.ca/Documents/TW/miway/miwayfive/WORKING_MiWayMap_RecommendedPlan_July8th.pdf
Some other minor things are a new ticket office at Square One GO Bus Terminal, and redoing City Centre Terminal in April.
Hurontario LRT and other planned projects: >>>910472
>>914038
The Mississauga Transitway, an east-west BRT running from Winston Churchill in the west to Renforth in the east. It is partially opened; other stations are opening later this year, with Renforth Gateway opening in 2017. The project is over budget and behind schedule (2 stations were supposed to open earlier this month).
It is used by MiWay express buses and GO buses. Most stations will have a connection to MiWay buses, and 3 stations (4, including City Centre) will be used as stops for GO buses.
A connection to the future Hurontario LRT will be at City Centre Transit Terminal (main bus station). There will be a connection at Renforth Gateway to the Eglinton Crosstown LRT if it is extended westward (or if John Tory’s SmartTrack happens).
>>914040
Here’s the alignment from west to east:
From Winston Churchill to Erin Mills, buses will run along a segregated busway parallel to Highway 403. Both stations will be used by GO Transit.
From Erin Mills to City Centre, buses will run on the 403 (they will use the shoulders if necessary. They exit off at Centre View Drive, go south on Duke of York Drive, and east on Rathburn Road. Originally there was plans for more busway (403 portion) and a tunnel (under Rathburn), but that was scrapped.
After City Centre, buses will continue east on Rathburn and turn off into a second section of busway just east of the Hurontario Street underpass. The transitway will parallel with the 403, Eastgate Parkway after Cawthra, and Eglinton Avenue beyond Tahoe Station.
>>914040
>(or if John Tory’s SmartTrack happens)
I still can't velieve money is being wasted studying that ridiculous proposal.
>>914049
>I still can't velieve money is being wasted studying that ridiculous proposal.
Even more so when Metrolinx has even come out and said that it can't be done, and would not work with GO RER. Metrolinx has suggested we just build the DLR from Don Mills to St. Andrew for $7 Billion and extend the Crosstown to Renforth and/or Pearson.
>>897565
Markham here, wouldve made sense to expand north to Richmond Hill first before Vaughan because it's pretty much a York Region Transit Hub. It already takes me an hour and a half to get from here to Finch during rush hour.
>>914115
The whole extension is literally a political grab. Originally it was only supposed to go as far as York University, but the Minister of Transportation at the time wanted a Subway in his ward, so now we are building a subway to the middle of nowhere.
To be honest I don't believe the Subway should extend beyond Toronto's boarder unless York/Vaughan is willing to pay for the operation and maintenance of their share of it (which they might be).
>>897336
In Cleveland right now the rta had a low budget and is planning service restrictions and higher fares to pay for old track that needs to be replaced
>>914038
>dundas express will still go through utm
FUCK THIS
every goddamn morning
>>914106
If his tax cuts get rectified in time
>>914536
101A will bypass UTM.
I had a nice time visiting Toronto and railfaning a bit there, I was really excited about the UP Express but it didn't seem very popular when I took it over the holidays. Their whole business is classy as shit tho.
www.youtu.be/9Lx-JlhV7nA
>>914728
>I was really excited about the UP Express but it didn't seem very popular when I took it over the holidays.
Because ask any Torontonian and they'll tell you it was a waste of cash and is way to expensive. The vast majority of people who go to Pearson use either a Taxi service or just pay $3 to take the TTC. The UP will become even more redundant if the expansion to the Eglinton Crosstown LRT to Pearson is approved.
>>914728
It's so damn expensive. Besides, who needs to go to the airport that often? Taxis are cheaper.
It's even more of a fuck up since construction has already started to put a subway station right near it.
>>897863
Survey crews are surveying the proposed route already near Houston, and the project has raised $75 million when the new CEO came onboard for initial design, and raised another $40 million from Japan Overseas Infrastructure Investment Corp. that could be increased up to $140 million. Half of the projects ultimate funding will be funded by the Japanese Bank for International Cooperation.
So yeah, it's probably gonna happen.
>>897890
Oops
Karlsruhe is still building its tram tunnel, the dashed green lines.
The east-west tunnel finnished digging, now they're at the ramps and stations.
The north-south tunnel is mostly built cut-and-cover and is supposed to open in 2019.
A new east-west surface tram, the solid green line, is also planned on where currently is an inner-city highway, which will be put in a tunnel. Funding for this is now apparently secured and construction will start this summer.
The yellow line east of that is a new tram line that already opened in 2012, curiously before this map was made.
The yellow line in the north-west in Knlelingen will be a new tram line to connect a newly developed area, construction will be this year.
The orange and red lines are vague ideas without any exact plans.
>>897336
love you
Not my city, but nearby...
Hamilton, Ontario. It is 70km west of Toronto, and has a population of about 500 000.
The BLAST network is a proposed plan consisting of five lines named after a letter in the word "BLAST". 2 of the 5 lines (B and A) are funded and construction will start in 2019.
The B-Line (yellow line) is an LRT that runs east-west, from Queenston Traffic Circle to McMaster University. It runs on Main Street in the east, and King Street in the west. The LRT was originally planned to run further east to Eastgate Square (blue line), but that was put on hold due to opposition in the area.
To compensate for the eastern portion (Queenston to Eastgate Square), the money is to be used for a small section of the A-Line (LRT, solid red line). The A-Line runs north-south on James Street from the Waterfront to Gore Park. It acts as a shuttle between West Harbour GO and Hamilton GO; a connection to the B-Line will be at Gore Park.
GO Transit also plans to extend the Lakeshore line to Stoney Creek via West Harbour GO (dashed red line).
London, Ontario is a city in southwestern Ontario with a population of 350 000+. They want to implement a rapid transit plan dubbed “Shift”, it is currently unfunded. It will consist of two lines running north-east and south-west utilizing LRT and/or BRT (respectively, following the preferred plan).
>The north-east line (LRT) will start in Masonville, go to Richmond Street via Western University.
>Around Oxford Street the LRT will go below-grade to bypass an at-grade rail line (the tunnel will be ~700m long, and will have a station underground ).
>When the line emerges downtown, the line will split (northbound will run on Richmond and southbound will run on Clarence Street).
>Both tracks will regroup at a hub (connection with the BRT and nearby to VIA Rail) at Clarence and King Street.
>The line will run east on King, and split again at Waterloo Street (eastbound on King, westbound on Dundas Street).
>When the tracks regroup they will continue on Dundas, north on Highburry Avenue, and east on Oxford. The line will terminate at Fanshawe College; a later extension to YXU is also possible.
The south-west line (BRT) will start on Oxford Street (from the west), south Wharncliffe Road, through the hub (via Riverside Drive, Dundas Street and Ridout Street), and south on Wellington Street.
>More Info and Renderings: https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/shiftlondon/pages/68/attachments/original/1449498108/PIC3boards-2015-12-01.pdf?1449498108
>>922199
Your transit system looks fairly sensible. If the routes have the demand for special arrangements go for it. Looking your densitios and overall population, I'd guess BRT-ish measures to existing routes would be the most sensible first step.
To carry out major track renovation works, reserve land for future quadruplication, and eliminate numerous level crossings that jam roads during peak times a gigantic chunk of the railway from Caufield to Dandenong in Melbournes south eastern suburbs is going to be ELEVATED
There is also a plan for eliminating the 50 worst level crossings
And a somewhat dubious second city cente tunnel
Still no railway for Rowville and Doncaster.
>>922199
>rapid transit
>lightrail
you know who this is going to trigger
>>922202
>fairly sensible
eliminate the tunnels and dedicated railways and just have it on the road
that shit will cost a fortune but the vehicles will have only modest patronage and the system will see only modest use
>>922208
Yeah, that's why I said "BRT-ish", no sense in rails unless it's a strong trunk corridor or a single line is filled to the brim and running <5 minutes in rush.
>>922202
I disagree, but then again I can't for the life of me see any benefit to BRT except for slightly lower construction cost, which is offset by a higher operating cost.
The idea of BRT isn't to offer lower capacity than LRT, and if your demand is low, having a BRT instead of an LRT doesn't really pose any advantages, either.
There's a reason why BRT was developed in shitty 3rd world countries where they're so short sighted that they think saving a couple of bucks on construction is good, even though in the long run it'll be more expensive.
