--- Bruce Gaarder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"It seems to me that the number of people on a streetcar had an extra 0. 600 is the stuffed capacity of a three-car lrt train. A modern streetcar may carry 60." While 600 may be a little optimistic (it's based on configurations having two articulated units coupled together), modern streetcars, or trams, running on city streets, certainly have far larger capacities than 60. The Alstom Citadis trams in use in European cities are pretty typical and have a listed capacity of 310 persons depending upon how they're configured. http://www.urbantransport-technology.com/projects/montpellier/montpellier1.html Even the San Francisco Muni trams have a capacity of at least 200 persons and they operate on very old, congested and narrow streets (once they leave downtown). Charlie Swope Ward 1 _____________________________________________ To Join: St. Paul Issues Forum Rules Discussion Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _____________________________________________ St. Paul Topics - This Week: Light Rail http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/listinfo/stpaul-topics _____________________________________________ NEW ADDRESS FOR LIST: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, modify subscription, or get your password - visit: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/listinfo/stpaul Archive Address: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/private/stpaul/
