Do we need cross-river trams? (Long appendix)
Michael Bell wrote:
In article .com,
Boltar
wrote:
Safety & Practicality:
How do you propose a constantly moving belt crosses major
intersections
when it has hundreds or thousands of people are in the vehicles on
it
any
any one time? Stop the whole belt on a red? Stop bits of bit?
Disconnect
the vehicle and risk the next one hitting it unless you have some
complex
control system? I can just see the HSE really going for this one.
Moving belts/chains have been dumped as impractical even on
reserved
rights of way railways, using them in a street setting is an absurd
idea.
B2003
They obviously have to be grade-separated.
So there would be ugly elevated concrete guideways everywhere. Yuck,
even
worse.
B2003
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