There are a great many streetcar safety tips put on blast this week amid the debut of the toy train . . . Here's one of the most important from one of our KICK-ASS TKC blog community denizens.
A helpful reminder and big picture for upcoming transit . . .
Another problem with the streetcar
I was getting into my car parked on 63rd St. the other day and saw a bus heading in my direction. The bus simply swerved around my door to avoid hitting it as any car would also do. I thought of how that will be impossible with the streetcar on fixed rails. Every time a person enters or exits a car parked on Main St. even if they are parked within the white lines, the streetcar will still have to come to a complete stop, unlike a bus that would just drive around the car door.
The streetcar will be slow enough to begin with. It will have to stop at red lights, like buses and cars also do. But if it has to stop every time a person opens their car door on Main St. - and many will - it will take forever for it to go two miles.
Cars parked outside the white lines will stop the streetcar. Accidents in intersections on the rail lines will stop the streetcar. Car doors opening on Main street will stop the streetcar.
These problems don't exist with buses. The bus would just swerve around the cars or accidents.
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seeing that street car running through town empty on a Saturday night spells doom.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the city should send some public works staff to Spain to see why the streetcar can't swerve.
ReplyDeleteToot toot. Crunch. Clunk.
ReplyDeleteOh, but we know better than our great-grandparents.
Kansas City: Ready for 1929. Again.
@ 7:01... LOL!!!
ReplyDeleteYawn. The sound of hit counts falling
ReplyDeleteWow, that kickass denizen is a genius for realizing that on their own.
ReplyDeleteCheck whether a streetcar is coming before you open your car door. If so, wait until the streetcar has passed, then open your door.
ReplyDeleteThat bus could as easily have swerved into you as around you.
Embracing failed ideas is the hallmark of Sly and the Family Council.
ReplyDeleteThat train doesn't even make a bad terrorist target....sheesh!
ReplyDeleteany time you open your car door in front of a car, bus, or street car you are at fault.
ReplyDeletePeople are watching the water rates skyrocket and hundreds of millions are being wasted on vanity projects. So sad, so pathetic. I don't blame the elected officials for being really dumb and out of touch, which they are. I blame the voters for being even dumber and even more out of touch.
ReplyDeleteThe voters are the ones who are insisting that the Titanic run into the iceberg. That is liberal equality for you. We all drown. So pathetic. Just.... Damn.
The train is just one in a long series of pointless and expensive money wasting projects. I guess if you cannot attract the right people to your city the best you can do is make it so expensive that poor people have to move away.
Go Sly?
Or, people can try not being pricks and wait for the tram to pass before opening their door. I'm probably expecting too much from this self-centered society..
ReplyDeleteSafety tip No. 1: Don't ride toy train after dark without practicing your conceal carry rights.
ReplyDeleteThere's plenty of real estate downtown that this plaything never really HAD TO be on a city street to be functional.
ReplyDeleteThere were other ways they could have done this. Boston has one of the most transit systems in the world. None of the cars that move people enter city streets. People in cars there usually can't see the trains. Sure some are underground, but take a thriving situation and just lay a big turd in the middle of it like this? How could this ever work? Main street will soon be a ghost town. It will look like the jazz district soon, with just facades and trash and loitering thugs.
Don't you just love how this this useless mayor calls all this 'progress?'
Boston has one of the most advanced transit systems in the world.
ReplyDeleteI propose all future talk regarding the light rail be referred to as simply, 318. The 318 train, train 318 or for the hipsters, the three-one-eight. We can't let the metro forget the fact that only 318 voters are responsible for this disaster.
ReplyDelete3:59 and why would we care what Boston has? This is Kansas City, the two towns are nothing alike, so it's stupid to try and think so. I doubt you have ever been there.
ReplyDeleteAlso, it appears you're too stupid to check anything before opening your piehole, which makes me think you're related to Fuckhouser.
Of the top ten cities in the world for mass transportation, only one US city makes everyone's list, and that sure as hell isn't Boston. It's New York at the bottom of most top ten lists with Seoul Korea being number one the most.
5:39. Are you one of those dumb ass council members who wants to turn KC into Portland, Seattle, Boston, etc? Why don't you just fucking move there
ReplyDeleteThe thing is a disaster, with the potential of become a catastrophe. It will be great fun to watch how it fails to impress anybody and falls into disrepair. It will be a great moving flop house.
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