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Canucks Don’t Do Light Rapid Transit

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Certainly, Canada doesn’t do urban, interurban & regional rail based LRT,

It used to be that the US was the most intransigent, obdurate & reactionary nation in the western world as far as transit, but the past ten years have seen a massive expansion of Light Rail, LRT, Tramways & Streetcar systems in America

From the Light Rail Transit Association – LRTA http://www.lrta.org/index.html

and the US Light Rail Now http://www.lightrailnow.org/index.htm

Electric Light Rail Transit (LRT) Interurban & Streetcar
30#
Baltimore (rapid LRT)
Boston (legacy surface electric railway upgraded to modern LRT)
Buffalo (modern semi-metro LRT)
Charlotte (modern interurban LRT, heritage streetcar)
Cleveland (legacy surface electric railway upgraded to modern LRT)
Dallas (modern interurban LRT, heritage streetcar)
Denver (rapid interurban LRT)
Houston (rapid LRT)
Hudson-Bergen (rapid interurban LRT)
Kenosha (heritage streetcar)
Little Rock (heritage streetcar)
Los Angeles (rapid interurban LRT)
Memphis (currently heritage streetcar; modern LRT planned)
Minneapolis (interurban LRT in operation, streetcar proposed)
Newark (legacy surface electric railway upgraded to rapid LRT)
New Orleans (heritage streetcar)
Philadelphia (legacy surface electric railway upgraded to modern LRT, heritage streetcar)
Phoenix (rapid LRT)
Pittsburgh (legacy surface electric railway upgraded to rapid LRT)
Portland (rapid interurban LRT)
Sacramento (rapid interurban LRT in operation, heritage streetcar proposed)
St. Louis (rapid interurban LRT in operation, heritage streetcar proposed)
Salt Lake City (rapid interurban LRT in operation, heritage streetcar proposed)
San Diego (rapid interurban LRT in operation, heritage streetcar proposed)
San Francisco (legacy surface electric railway upgraded to rapid LRT, heritage streetcar)
San Jose (modern interurban LRT, heritage streetcar)
San Pedro (heritage streetcar)
Seattle (modern streetcar, modern semi-metro LRT)
Tacoma (modern LRT streetcar)

Tampa (currently heritage streetcar; modern LRT planned)

Internally Powered Light Railway
5#
Austin (diesel mutliple-unit light railway)
Camden-Trenton (diesel mutliple-unit light railway)
Galveston (fuel-motor-powered heritage streetcar)
Oceanside-Escondido (diesel mutliple-unit light railway)
Savannah (heritage streetcar powered by fuel motor and supercapacitors)

 

Heritage Trolley Systems
Colorado Springs
Ft. Collins
Ft. Smith
Seattle
Tucson

US – 74No New Rail Transit Systems Proposed, Planned, or in Development

from Light Rail Now
http://www.lightrailnow.org/success2.htm

Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto, Waterloo; not counting Vancouver cos’ Skytrain is not LRT

Could do a lot, lot better Canada but probably will not because its not politically  expedient.


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