Mudkip Orange Posted July 15, 2014 Share Posted July 15, 2014 (edited) Just got back from a 10-day trip to the Pacific Northwest. On Broadway, they have recently added streetcar tracks (a consolation prize to the First Hill crowd for deleting their LRT stop). They have added these streetcar tracks onto a street which already had electric trolley buses. To this they have then added a bicycle track (!) Edited July 15, 2014 by Mudkip Orange 2 Link to comment
cteno4 Posted July 15, 2014 Share Posted July 15, 2014 Holy crap batman! Use to be some muni bus intersections in sf that were about that nasty. Jeff Link to comment
bikkuri bahn Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 A corner room at the Silver Cloud would be a fitting location for a busman's holiday. Link to comment
Guest ___ Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Mudkip, that pic you posted doesn't look much worse than SEPTA's intersections, does it?. Link to comment
Martijn Meerts Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Ha !!! Welcome to Bangkok !!! I have a slight feeling quite a few of those aren't installed by the official companies ;) 1 Link to comment
kvp Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 I have a slight feeling quite a few of those aren't installed by the official companies ;) The frightening thing is that actually they were installed by the local service companies. But their standards are slightly different from what we know. Btw, the Seattle wire nest isn't that bad and seems to be the result of a patch. If they ever replace the load bearing wires, they could change it to a nice clean solution, where the whole crossing is suspended on 4 wires in a rectangle pattern with 2 cross wires for tensioning the two turns and holding up the center. This only needs 4 poles, one on each corner or they could even be connected to mounting points on the buildings, since these wires are isolated from the running wires. Link to comment
Mudkip Orange Posted July 18, 2014 Author Share Posted July 18, 2014 (edited) The Seattle wire nest ... seems to be the result of a patch. The wires on Broadway are only used by the #9, which will be made redundant by the streetcar. In theory you could dewire it once the streetcars start running. But it's also the only wired crosstown route, everything else shunts you into the Downtown grid. So that wouldn't really be good from a network robustness perspective. Edited July 18, 2014 by Mudkip Orange Link to comment
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