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I find your analogy between the purple line and the Metrorail system to be completely bogus. The reason that the Metrorail system, and for that matter the NYC Subway, can stop so frequently is that they have dedicated right-of-way between stops. The penalty for stopping at stations frequently is offset by the benefit of not having to stop for anything else. Surface light rail has to stop for all the reasons that regular buses stop: signals, traffic, pedestrians, accidents, emergency vehicles, etc. Mix that with frequent stations and you get a train that goes nowhere fast.

It seems incredible to me that in 2009, when WMATA is finally realizing that limited/skip-stop service is a great thing for a lot of people that can be rolled out cheaply and quickly, we are on the edge of spending billions on a train that is going to get stuck in traffic and stop every 2 blocks.

IMHO, if it's worth 2-billion to build on the surface, spend another billion and put it underground. Otherwise, you don't need to spend billions of dollars to have transit vehicles sit in traffic: we're doing that already.

by Michael on Jun 9, 2009 1:43 pm • link • report

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