Taken over the course of two minutes this morning as I walked to work. The garbage truck was serving the hotel and the garbage man had to park the truck, walk to the sub-grade parking level, push the garbage can to the street, dump it, and then replace the garbage can. The streetcar just had to wait...and wait...and wait.
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Kinda does illustrate the advantages of bus doesn't it?
Even a trolley bus has limited ability to change lanes, and depending on the bus itself can operate off-wires for a short distance. I know Metro's older trolleys could do that; not sure about the newer trolleys.
Here's a perfect case where there's two sets of rails (MAX and Streetcar) yet one set of tracks is blocked and there's nothing that can be done. A successful streetcar line also requires adequate loading zones for vehicles - look in front of the Nines hotel in the old Meier & Frank Building as an example.
True, buses are far from perfect and have their own issues, but the light rail/Streetcar supporters seem to discount any problem with their preferred mode while exaggerating the problems with buses - here...the 9 sails on by, while the Streetcar waits.
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