Researcher on urban planning and public transportation.
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Marco Chitti
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The video is a bit long but worth watching (especially for Toronto folks).
The signal on the left shows the position of the radio-controlled switch. The two signals on the back are for right-turn (left) and straight (right) tram movements.
It's as simple as it gets.
The rail on the left is good.
The rail on the right is good too.
But the rail on the left will never be a replacement of the one on the right (and viceversa).
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Marco Chitti
Marco Chitti
Also: don't forget that this lane can be barrow because it gets very little traffic because it leads... nowhere (sort of), thanks to the 1970s circulation plan
You can't have the urbsnism of Europe if you do not adopt the European size of things.
The lane on the left of the boarding island is a vehicular lane. Way narrower than 3m, maybe 2.5 or 2.7.
Stylish traffic signals
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One of the funny fundings of today: someone wrote Asterix's "These Romans are craxy" quote on top of the folder about the study for putting the tram underground in the city center.
Probably thought some 250 million franc for 2.5 km was a crazy idea...
The way Saint-Étienne modernized it's tram in the 1970s-2000s is a great lesson for cities like Toronto, Boston, Philly, San Francisco etc.
It's all there: circulation planning, new dedicated RoW, priority route with systematic descoping of lateral streets (RI-RO) etc.
The car lane is slightly larger elsewhere, but the parking one is 1.8m, maybe less.
