Was at Singapore recently and found their light rail transit for their new town insightful in solving traffic problem. Here's a video of their system I found.
Youtbe link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCaQDcsunHg&t=4s
Not sure this is really light rail. Grade seperated, third rail, high platforms, complex stations. One wonders why they do not use less streamlined cars with train doors.
London's Docklands Railway is similar and recently moved from streetcar-like equipment, but high floor and high platform, to cars with train doors. But then it also is called light rail although clearly a metro.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCaQDcsunHg&t=4s
There you go, I "lit it up" for you.
Looks like an impressive system, and being Singapore, I'll bet you'll never see any graffitti or any other kind of misbehavior on it!
The Singapore "LRT" is actually a rubber tire, automatic guideway, "people mover".
The tracks are somewhat similar to the Newark air train ? However it does not have the complicated switching mechanism that EWR has.
Close to people-mover technology, but extensive enough to be called a Metro.
Our community is FREE to join. To participate you must either login or register for an account.