And just for the record, this is what Dallas was promised in 1984.

too bad it will take another decade. and why the hell isint there going to be a route to denton from fort worth?

>>111682
WHO THE FUCK CARES ABOUT DALLAS AND/OR A RAIL NETWORK

isn't it actually a really chunky lightrail rather than a dedicated train? operating only slight grade seperated away from street traffic?
also there is a thread for this: >>111235

>>111703
Only in downtown, where they also run in the middle of the street.

The suburban lines are almost completely grade-separated.

You'd figure it'd connect to Arlington due to us getting hte cowboys.

>>111707
Arlington voters shot down public transit every single time it was on the ballot.

fuck I love tubes

>>111682
Hahaha yeah, in the 1910s and 20s america built streetcars by the dozens of miles every year, nowadays it's what, 10 miles of light rail for cities five times the size?
I love how America seems to technologically backwards nowadays.

>>111706
okay but it is in really fucking big light rail
>>111713
Melbourne Australia has the largest in the world and its an uphill battle getting anything done

>>111713
Hey, Dallas still has a streetcar line!

Pic related.

>>111722
no. 369 is a Melbourne W-class

>>111727
Why so it is!

Houstonfag here. I WISH we had a light rail network, not that strip of line that's a pitiful excuse for a rail system.

>>111810
You mean that deathtrap on rails?

Maybe Houston would have a better system if they joined DART.

Is this thing FRA-compliant?

'Cause if it is, they could double the service on the TRE just by running this thing back and forth.

>>112164
FRA-compliant means being built like a tank, which is why rail is fuckedup in the USA.
Considering how many there are across the USA there must be some loophole for heritage and tourist lines

>>112172
They either have to be temporally or physically separated.

In other words, the tracks for non-FRA-compliant vehicles either have to be completely separate from the tracks for FRA-compliant vehicles, or there has to be a locking mechanism to prevent the two from being on the same tracks at the same time.

DART is hoping it can sway the FRA to relax their policies, but I think we know how that'll go.

>>111713

Someone (I forget who) recently commented on how he looks back on the days of the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, where immigrant labor (in days before quotas and "illegal immigrant" scares) laid down 4 miles of track a day and then looks at today, where it takes a decade to lay 4 miles of track because of all the permits, hearings, "impact statements" and God knows what else you have to go through. It's a sorry state of affairs and we've only brought it on ourselves.

Lisbon's rail, subway and light rail lines.

>>112210
Perth in Western Australia built a 70km railway in two years, including two stations under the city (no easy task because that place is sand do matter how far you dig down)
As for who built the American railways in the 19th century, they were slaves from China - look up the origin of the kidnapping euphemism "shanghaied".

>>112281
43 miles for you Americans, also it is duplicated and electrified.

Good point.

>>112281

>As for who built the American railways in the 19th century, they were slaves from China

Also Irish-Americans, who were being treated like white niggers and couldn't easily get any other job.

So the moral of the story is, "if you want to build railroads, you have to subjugate minorities?"

Gotcha.

>>112301
in the us, it would appear that way

>>112301

That's how it used to be, before the labor unions came around.

>>112313
except the railroad mentioned here >>112281 was built only a few years ago by labour unions, and they state or contractor would have been having to compete against WAs' export boom to hire a lot of the construction workers

>>112281
They weren't slaves you fucktards, they were just immigrants who were underpaid to do jobs like go into the tunnel after a blast to see if it was safe. But they weren't forced to work, and they got paid. Although they did have to work for about 364 days a year, which kinda sucks.

Still, no excuse for not having the fuck rebuilt your tram systems, but I guess taking a car from your home to a parking lot is more convenient, think about it, walking about 1km to go from the suburb to downtown, UNTHINKABLE.
Things like that are really depressing, it's times like that when I look to places like Zurich, which has an ultra-awesome tram and rail transportation system, just like many other important european cities. And unlike the few subways in America, they're actually in a 1st world condition.
The subway in New York is about at par with the subway in Mexico City, true story bro, only the subway in Mexico City costs .20USD for a single ride. How does it feel to be out-subway'd by Mexico?

>>112330
I wouldn't know; I don't live in New York City.

Here in Dallas/Fort Worth, the only subway is the underground portion of the Red and Blue Lines at Cityplace Station.

Fort Worth, at least, wants to build a new modern streetcar system—pic related.