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And what do they plan to do with the H series subway cars, send them to the scrap heap, or in addition to that dump them in the sea to create coral reefs perhaps.
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As you pointed out, the vehicle sizes are quite similar, which I don't think is what people are complaining about for Transit City. Rather, Transit City is not a "light rail... operating entirely in right-of-ways with protected crossings" since it is not grade separated or separated by gates. The main concern isn't about heavy rail or light rail - more about the speed improvement from having grade separation or protected crossings. If Transit City LRT runs as fast or faster than the subway, I don't think people would complain what kind of vehicle they're in. Sidenote - the LA Gold Line is a LRT with protected crossings and I'm pretty sure it operates faster than our subway. If this is what transit city is, i dont think people would have a problem with that.
There have been no reallocations of subway equipment. Any seemingly increased presence of the H5s on the YUS is purely coincidental on your part.
Those coincidences happen to me a lot too. It seems like every 3rd or 4th subway ride I take on B-D I get one of the two remaining H3s (I think it's H3, the only ones that still have the orange benches in them). The odds of that happening are pretty low, but it seems to happen to be quite a bit.
Too bad our new trains don't look as good as those. It seems that we could learn something from their stations, like the fact that natural stone is a great cladding material. Do these things matter? Well, the way a large city fashions itself goes a long way towards how its residents feel about it and the identity it forms internationally.
did you see how narrow the platforms are? Thats some 3rd world safety there lol. Id rather have our stations.
It's actually an H-4. H-3's were actually H-2's with Chopper control.
The H-4's still have a good presence on the B-D line. I even rode an H-4 at 11:00 one night.
Yeah, I've hit a few of them at that time too. For the older people on the forum here, were they always that loud and shaky (I can only judge by how they are now, I wasn't around when they were new, or newer )? Or is their age just starting to show? I find the ride on the H-4s to be substantially louder and more shaky than on any of the newer cars.
And what do they plan to do with the H series subway cars, send them to the scrap heap, or in addition to that dump them in the sea to create coral reefs perhaps.
The H4's seem to have their lights flicker a lot these day's too. Sometimes they go off completely between stations.