Depends on a lot of factors. Rochester was the smallest city in North America to have a subway. Locally, many claim that it failed because the city was too small for a subway. Yet many smaller cities in Europe have metros.
Rochester killed its subway system for the same reason many other US eliminated urban rail: people stopped using it when cars came into popular use in the ‘50s. Same reason why most US cities still have piss-poor public transit.
Not a metro, but some sort of frequent regional rail could work on existing infrastructure in the Burlington, VT area. Based on my crappy back of the napkin math, ridership would be at least 3,000 daily. (Would depend on how much it would cannibalize bus service, and how many new riders get added.)
Theres not Metropole around Malmö as the 325 includes most villages and quite Some countryside. However the idea is to connect it to Copenhagen which is obviously a different story.
Richmond va. #rva We had the first operational electric streetcar network and could use some of the old track. You could run the lines down to Petersburg (like the streetcar line used to) and serve a large area
If you’ve never seen “Singles,” it’ll give you a good idea what Seattle’s opposition to rail transit even into the ‘90s was about. (Plus it’s of course the definitive grunge-era movie. The transit bit is a subplot.)
Kind of a long story. After dithering around on public transit for decades, they finally launched Link in 2009 – but it's still fairly limited in scope. The REAL news is Seattle-area voters approving one of the biggest transportation infrastructure projects in American history back in 2016.
Sound Transit 3 is a full 25-year plan budgeted at $53 billion (in 2016 dollars), and intended to expand rail service throughout the entire Seattle-Tacoma region, along with rapid bus service & the like. The 2 Line connecting Seattle with Bellevue & Redmond is the first (and partially finished).
Here is Canada you can probably start talking light metro like the Vancouver skytrain or Ottawa O-train at 500,000 to 750,000 metro population. I’m the states where cities are less dense,
gas is cheaper anything less that 2,000,000 is probably a white elephant excluding some crazy local tourist base
Because do you count cities surrounding Chicago like Elgin, Aurora, and Joliet that essentially have their own PACE Bus routes separate from the closer Chicago suburbs?
It's still operating? While software was an issue, the main problem is students and pedestrian safety near station, due to low density and activity near the stations and station design?
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Not feasible at all in Ireland when Dublin doesn't even have one, but it's fun to dream!
No direct trains from Cork to Limerick, Galway or Waterford.
Public transport in Ireland is an absolute joke.
gas is cheaper anything less that 2,000,000 is probably a white elephant excluding some crazy local tourist base
Light metro/lrt - anywhere with more than 60k inhabitants
Tram - anywhere with more than 15k inhabitants.
We need to build more transport in the UK, we have so much potential
Because do you count cities surrounding Chicago like Elgin, Aurora, and Joliet that essentially have their own PACE Bus routes separate from the closer Chicago suburbs?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgantown_Personal_Rapid_Transit
The PRT was build by the Feds as an experiment in the 70s, and is a perennial thing that transit nerds point to as "the future."
Kind of like Dippin Dots.
For example, in your post, you used it to describe both cities and the (light rail?) transit (subway?) systems in those cities.