#Light Rail

[socialjusticeandfandomthings]

Please look at my new favorite video @amtrak-official you have a true train fan in your midst

[sfmuniphotos]

A two-car K-Ingleside train bound for Balboa Park.

[coupleofdays]

I recently had the mindblowing revelation that "light rail" is actually a real life term, and not something made up in Tron.

[fantasiavii]

Anyone who says car is immediately disqualified. Get out there and live a little

[uniories]

Circular Light Rail (Kaohsiung, 2023)

[360nw]

Portland Streetcar NS Line at OHSU Commons - Portland Oregon - February 2011

[pigeon-dyke]

I love public transit so much... light rail trains are like big friendly creatures to me.

[ross-hori]

How Kobe stops stuff falling down when the ground shakes.

A trio of photos showing some of the engineering that goes into steadying the Port Liner light rail.

It got a respray not long ago and I'm liking the green.

[atlurbanist]

This is the dystopian future that evil urbanists want for the Atlanta Beltline. Recoil in terror if you must, anti-rail zealots. But this scene is like candy to me.

I assume this photo of trams on grass is from the Netherlands, since the poster (filmendefiester on Twitter) lives in Utrecht. Looks lovely!

Seriously, the anti-Beltine-rail zealotry is increasingly bizarre to me.

You want to protect trees from being taken down for rail? Let's plant more trees elsewhere so that every square inch of sidewalk is shaded. You want room for expanding the width of bike paths on the Beltline? Let's expand great bike paths onto streets instead and build a network.

The Beltline shouldn't be our only option for planting trees and expanding great paths for bikes and micromobility. We should be doing that *everywhere*.

But as a former rail path and a growth corridor, it's a damn perfect place for expanding rail & rail-supportive density.

Anyway, I'm bitter because the anti-BL-rail group hijacked one of my photos on LinkedIn and used it to trash talk rail. It's been one of those days. These folks need to be seen as the bizarrely misguided ideologues that they are. Stop making them seem relevant, please.

[scrapironflotilla]

A derailed light railway trolley used for conveying wounded being replaced. Battle of Messines, 10 June 1917.

[ppyotrovich]

i was wondering, Pilsen's tram 4 has a peak frequency of around 3 minutes, thus probbably being the tram line with the highest frequency in the Czech republic. Is there a tram line with higher or similiar frequencies elsewhere in europe or in the world?

(i know in Prague the segments at Václavské náměstí or other stations get up to a tram every minute but i am asking specificaly about a single line frequency)

[queerpossums]

more cities need to be actively hostile towards cars. heavy rail bisecting main roads, bike lanes separated by barriers and medians, bus lanes that car drivers actually receive fines for using. end parking minimums that have transformed downtowns into concrete wastelands and institute parking maximums.

[smugcomputer]

let's travel!

[road-chicken]

North of Downtown

[sfmuniphotos]

The Ocean Beach end of the N-Judah line.

[chaddavisphotography]

Construction continues on the Southwest LRT Green Line train construction in Minneapolis.