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Light rail is retarded. Dedicated bus roads would be cheaper and more efficient.

The same investment in rail and overhead power could build m...
gibberish (?)
  08/19/26
(GM lobbyist in 1950 to every city with a streetcar)
Long PlayroomPoon Clown Conniption
  08/19/26
We have street cars in Seattle. I saw one stopped for over a...
gibberish (?)
  08/19/26
sounds like a towtruck / drugaddict problem
Long PlayroomPoon Clown Conniption
  08/19/26
Yeah just have a tow truck follow the street car. Urban ...
gibberish (?)
  08/19/26
and they aren't wrong
the neighbor from HELL
  08/19/26
where are they now? i remember back in the day there was the...
Brother Peter Dimond
  08/19/26
I almost mentioned the South Lake Union Trolley, which I'm c...
gibberish (?)
  08/19/26


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Date: August 19th, 2026 12:43 AM
Author: gibberish (?)

The same investment in rail and overhead power could build multiple miles more of simple segregated roads using the same footprint. Buses are fungible and can move on city streets and the entire line doesn't come to a stop if eg a truck breaks down at a rail crossing. It's simpler and much easier to maintain. That's before factoring in self driving buses we'll eventually see. And these transit programs have decades long build plans that are rapidly becoming obsolete.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5894795&forum_id=2),#50077346)



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Date: August 19th, 2026 12:51 AM
Author: Long PlayroomPoon Clown Conniption ( )

(GM lobbyist in 1950 to every city with a streetcar)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5894795&forum_id=2),#50077368)



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Date: August 19th, 2026 12:57 AM
Author: gibberish (?)

We have street cars in Seattle. I saw one stopped for over an hour because a car parked too close to the line. It looked stupid as fuck. Buses literally drove around it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5894795&forum_id=2),#50077384)



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Date: August 19th, 2026 12:59 AM
Author: Long PlayroomPoon Clown Conniption ( )

sounds like a towtruck / drugaddict problem

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5894795&forum_id=2),#50077389)



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Date: August 19th, 2026 1:03 AM
Author: gibberish (?)

Yeah just have a tow truck follow the street car.

Urban professionals think a bus is low class and a street car is cool and big city hip.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5894795&forum_id=2),#50077394)



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Date: August 19th, 2026 1:08 AM
Author: the neighbor from HELL

and they aren't wrong

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5894795&forum_id=2),#50077405)



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Date: August 19th, 2026 1:04 AM
Author: Brother Peter Dimond

where are they now? i remember back in the day there was the south lake union streetcar/trolley aka the SLUT

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5894795&forum_id=2),#50077397)



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Date: August 19th, 2026 1:10 AM
Author: gibberish (?)

I almost mentioned the South Lake Union Trolley, which I'm convinced an intern named. It was built for Amazon and now Amazon is getting out of Seattle as fast as it can.

The one I saw above was by Seattle Central community college on Capitol Hill. A car bumper was just slightly in the way and it had to stop. Everyone got off and got on a bus. It was still there blocking traffic almost an hour later when I got back.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5894795&forum_id=2),#50077409)