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Boing LRV car disaster

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Posted by 54light15 on Monday, June 6, 2016 11:57 AM

I understand that those clunkers had over 1,000 pieces in the mechanism to open the doors. Aircraft thinking, I guess.

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Posted by daveklepper on Monday, June 6, 2016 11:26 AM

They did provice the service between the PCC era and the current equipment in both San Francisco and Boston.

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Posted by CandOforprogress2 on Monday, June 6, 2016 10:30 AM

The PCC have outlasted the Boings....The Mattapan Line and up untill a few years back the Drake line in pittsburgh

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Monday, June 6, 2016 6:45 AM

The SLRV may be a collection of bad business decisions and poor design, but I hardly classify it as a disaster.  I would consider it to be a poorly executed attempt to replicate the standardization of the PCC.

The daily commute is part of everyday life but I get two rides a day out of it. Paul
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Posted by Buslist on Sunday, June 5, 2016 10:55 PM

CandOforprogress2

 

Thanks for the link but this is pretty well known stuff.

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Boing LRV car disaster
Posted by CandOforprogress2 on Saturday, June 4, 2016 1:54 PM

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