>Straßenbahn über alles!
Lol no

>>214175
In Amsterdam they run over you and your bike. In Germany they follow your bike at 10 kph smiling

I'm ok with this

>>214181
hell yeah

>Straßenbahn über alles!

Le tramway au dessus de tout! :3

Does SEPTA's Subway-surface lines count?

>>214173
Ist das Leipzig?

T

>>214236

sure why not, lots of cities do that to save money

>>214258
Paris's Tramway 2 is underground at the La Défense terminus and runs on previously existing regular rail. Tramways are quite flexible like that ^^

>>214249
Oh nein, das ist Frankfurt (Main). My first contact with the straßenbahnen. I'm from Brazil, and was in Germany for a month for a transportation design class. Shit was cash.

>>214291
Cool. Brazil's big in that, Alstom builds NYC's subways in Brazil. (and I dated a girl who designed brazilian
airports once...)

>>214296

Yeah, Brazil play major parts on the design and building of transport vehicles sold worldwide (Embraer rivals Bombardier in some fields), but our own public transport systems are shit. Go figure.

Also, would you give me the email of your ex-gf ;) ?

>>214295
There's a Mexican saying that goes "in a blacksmith's house, you'll find a wooden knife" ^^

>>214299
>>214312
Same as in Canada, no HSR, but they build it.

Melbourne, 250km of track. Largest tram network in the world.

>>214236

I made some parts for SEPTA at my last job, well I did the QC on some of them anyway. The undercarriage.

Here's some of Seattle's.

>>214378

More Seattle streetcar...

>>214379

>>214380

>>214312
>>214312

Well said.

>>214378
>>214378

Wonderful! Truly a rewarding job. I really look forward to be involved in transport layout designing, too.


This thread makes me happy.

>>214315
No they don't. The division of Bombardier that makes trains is a German company. Why do people always get this wrong?

>>214394
perhaps because the Acela was advertised as being a highspeed train built by the canadian company Bombardier?

>>214378
>>214379
Waterfront Streetcars, it operated five W2-class Trams from Melbourne.
It was shut down in 2005 so they could demolish the stabling yard to make way for a sculpture park for Microsoft executives & yuppies!
But its your own fault really. Seattle ought to have a widespread streetcar, not one route thats more for tourists than anything else. Or that LINK thing thats trying to be a train on the cheap.

>>214322
>>Melbourne, 250km of track. Largest tram network in the world.

I came

I wonder why every public transport system in the world is not rail-based.

>>214467
Alternate routes don't really work with rail.
Consider traffic collisions , roadworks etc.

>>214394
>>214394

Yeah, I almost came when I arrived in the Berlin Hauptbahnhof on the ICE and read the huge "BOMBARDIER - Willkommen in Berlin" sign.

>>214469

Of course... I was just being momentarily exaggerated. But still, interactions between light rail, surface trains, underground trains and satellite bus services are pure gold. Throw in bike lanes and safety side roads, and you get... well, you get Berlin.

Just kidding - the Tram in Berlin is not that great, comprising only a specific part of the city, the S- and U-Bahn are the main players there. In cities like Köln and München, the tram is far better. Nobody take buses at all, unless there is some kind of service detour going on.

BUMP BECAUSE PAGE 1 IS FULL OF HIPSTER FAGGOTS MASTURBATING TO FIXIE BIKES

The French Ground-level power supply is GOD TIER.
Overhead wires are a Third World solution.

>>214471
well said
berlin really ought to (slowly) expand their tram into the western part of the city because the s-bahn won't be doing anything for at least a decade

trams which also run underground in some areas is a nice concept, and cologne has a good network (barring the city archive collapse courtesy of the subway expansion of course)
bielefeld has such a network as well and it works like a charm (pic related)

>>214647

>Bielefeld
are you one of THEM?

>>214647
Yeah, only they are incredible fuckin' morons and do everything they can to sneakily NOT do this. No serious trams in the West before 2035 I predict.

>>214369
>>214369
wtf that line doesnt exist anymore? Like for 30 years...

>>214647
Been there!! I was heading to Schloß-Holte Stukenbrock for a friend's wedding with my GF, and our train magically turned into a streetcar at some point. Beautiful system!

>>214963

The Ruhr network is actually, (opposed to systems in e.g. Köln-Bonn, Kassel, Rhein-Neckar or Karlsruhe, which do change from tram to train) only a tram system, including interurban and underground lines.

Which makes it somewhat famous for allowing very long tram rides, e.g. from Krefeld to Witten, the shortest connection only using trams is 102 kilometers and takes over 4 hours.

This website is about one of these tours, it's in German though

http://mitglied.multimania.de/stadtbahnen/

>>214646
How does that work?

rode this kind of tram as a kid

>>215521

third rail between the rails

>>215526
hmm, I wonder if such a system would be viable in nyc? prolly not...

>>215521
There's a third "rail" in the middle. It only gets powered when a tram is right above it. Mad tech.
For specifics consult Wiki/Google.

>>215529
What do I wiki/google? third rail will bring up conventional stuff

>>215531
You obviously google the Bordeaux tram system.

>>215531
Which gives you the wikipage for the Bordeaux tram and this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-level_power_supply

>>215531

The system is called APS

also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-level_power_supply

>>215532
>>215533
>>215534
thank you, anons. I still doubt this'll ever come to the USA, reading at how poorly coordinated construction of the DC Streetcar is... (their 3 mothballed trams' warrantees expired!)

>>215208
Thanks for the great read. I really regret, that I moved away without knowing about this...

>>215555
So why do I get a quadruple GET here of all boards, oh the irony.

^^oops forgot pic

One of the best threads ever.

Hmmm has nobody posted the Luas yet? Meh, crime is rampant on this thing. Enjoy seeing junkies shoot up into their toes.

OP Here. Nevar Forget, kids: Schwarzfahren is bad.

>>217798

The setup seems pretty nice. Shame to know it's that decadent, though.

This reminds me, when I was in München last month, I overheard a conversation between two homeless people, and one of them (an old lady) said that she slept in the tram! Someone later told me that the trams at night are particularly thug-laden.

>>217816

Yah I have never ridden the Luas without seeing some sort of crime or fucktarded act. 3pm in the day, luas driving along, like 5 chav kids start banging on the sides of the windows. Almost breaking them.

>>217798
>>217798
>>217798
LUAS

Lick
Up
And
Swallow

>>215786
where's that?

>>217903
Darmstadt

This thread needs some motherfuckin' TTC

>>214358
>>214360
>>214359

Where are these? Higher res available?

>>217962
Melbourne

>>217975

Nope. Those are Toronto my friend.

>>217810
I saw a guy being caught schwarzfahren in Stuttgart. He actually managed to get off the tram, but there were three controllers on him. He then tried to jump over a metal fence, but one of the guys got him by the backpack! The Germans, so unaccustomed to this kind of "brutality", were a bit shocked. They should see what is police behavior in the USA or Brazil.

>>218000

Might want to actually check witch posts he was quoting before you post.

Pff, the tram system in my city is all fancy-like, with ooh-la-la grassed track ROW, and stuff...

>>218075

I prefer real steam trams

small trams

Bump

c

Helsinki

Zurich

Toronto

Philadelphia