Breaking News: City Announces BQX Next Steps
- Shorter: To Gowanas Red Hook Only from Long Island City
- More Expensive to Build
- Longer To Build 2029
- Uses Overhead
- More Inland
- Depends on Government allocations for support
Streetcars and Spatial Analysis. What are your proposals for streetcars and or trolleybuses in Brooklyn and New York City? Here past trackage maps are presented and analyzed in todays environment. Geospatial analytical methods are discussed regarding new routes.
Thursday, August 30, 2018
New News About Waterfront Streetcar Plan
https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEJ9dk4yabILl_q8gpCXyDqEqFwgEKg8IACoHCAowjuuKAzCWrzwwloIY?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen
Breaking news about the Brooklyn Queens Connector: Released 8/30/18 over 1 hr ago.
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
Interesting Article
https://placesjournal.org/article/roads-to-rails/?gclid=CjwKCAjwwo7cBRBwEiwAMEoXPHvesNGvNLJSCBcZavTyg_WRJ3CJJbFrItlJ1nHitEAHClNTYes-CRoCZWwQAvD_BwE
Related TopicsEric W. Sanderson, “Roads to Rails,”Places Journal, June 2013. Accessed 27 Aug 2018.https://doi.org/10.22269/130610
I came across by accident this article dealing with streetcars and various other issues such a physics of motion, air pollution, efficiency of motors and so on. Although I just skimmed the article very lightly and the article was written in 2013, the view point of Mr. Sanderson is that the world would be a better place if there were a lot more electric streetcars in existence. In my fast view of the article in a few minutes, Mr. Sanderson is picturing an electric economy where streetcars would be plenty and freight would be delivered by electric trains or trams. In the past few years, looking over news accounts of new light rail or tram systems in the United States is showing that some are becoming out of favor and are considered by some people as a waste of money and resources. Some recently opened tram systems are not doing well. Here in New York City, the waterfront streetcar in Brooklyn and Queens appears to be dead ( like all the other tram projects but forth) and there does not appear to be even new proposals for new routes. Remember my 20, 20 20 plan? That is, twenty years to talk about a proposal, twenty years to figure out how to pay for it and twenty years to build? It is hard to believe that in Brooklyn New York and New York City as a whole, the anti-trolley movement started about a 100 years ago. The last line built in Brooklyn, the Eighth Avenue in Bay Ridge started around 1918 -19? After this line was built, the BRT or other private Brooklyn tram line operators could not get permission from the City of New York to build any more lines in Southern Brooklyn.
Don't forget that Mayor Walker from the 1920's was very anti trolley and many of the mayors that followed. I believe that there is not a single exhibition of a electric trolley, such a trolley car in a Museum or on a side track anyplace in New York City. I would be happy if we had such an exhibition. We cannot expect anything more.
Thursday, August 2, 2018
Russian R-1 Tram Abandoned
http://www.metro-report.com/news/single-view/view/russia-one-tram-abandoned.html
Hi Folks:
Remember in 2014 news came out about a very futuristic Russian tram that was about to go into production. I just found out (see link above) that the project in 2017 was abandoned because the tram would be very difficult to build and maintain because of its' layout. Also for this new car, the current trucks {bogies?) would not work. The Staten Island Ferris Wheel, also something new, seems to be also dead due to legal or financial reasons
It was a beautiful tram. Shows that form and function do not always follow. The car looked beautiful but would be very difficult to build and operate. Good luck to the designers in the future. Some of us here in New York City would be happy if we were able to have a heritage trolley using old, Russian, or any other tram cars from somewhere in the world such as second hand equipment running a few hundred meters. It does not look like it will happen. If the Russian R-1 design was successful in being a good operating streetcar, many new communities would have taken a look at trams for city transit.
Good luck next time,
Tramway Null(0)
Hi Folks:
Remember in 2014 news came out about a very futuristic Russian tram that was about to go into production. I just found out (see link above) that the project in 2017 was abandoned because the tram would be very difficult to build and maintain because of its' layout. Also for this new car, the current trucks {bogies?) would not work. The Staten Island Ferris Wheel, also something new, seems to be also dead due to legal or financial reasons
It was a beautiful tram. Shows that form and function do not always follow. The car looked beautiful but would be very difficult to build and operate. Good luck to the designers in the future. Some of us here in New York City would be happy if we were able to have a heritage trolley using old, Russian, or any other tram cars from somewhere in the world such as second hand equipment running a few hundred meters. It does not look like it will happen. If the Russian R-1 design was successful in being a good operating streetcar, many new communities would have taken a look at trams for city transit.
Good luck next time,
Tramway Null(0)
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