By the way, a lot of first-generation tramway networks (almost all on mainland Europe and/or what used to be the U.S.S.R) are still unidirectional and some European operators are sticking to unidirectional running, they continue to buy new unidirectional equipment, almost invariable with doors on only one side.
However, newcomers not only start with bidirectional running but they usually have platforms on both sides in the direction of travel so precuding the use of trams with doors on only one side, even if platforms are added later.
Another thing to add, which almost never seems to be mentioned, say, in blogs and videos on is that request stopping is quite common on first-generation systems (those predating the trend away from trams) but less so on second-generation ones.
I’m sooooo tired of the trans issue. every day it’s trans trans trans trans …
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… oh trams!!!!
By the way, a lot of first-generation tramway networks (almost all on mainland Europe and/or what used to be the U.S.S.R) are still unidirectional and some European operators are sticking to unidirectional running, they continue to buy new unidirectional equipment, almost invariable with doors on only one side.
However, newcomers not only start with bidirectional running but they usually have platforms on both sides in the direction of travel so precuding the use of trams with doors on only one side, even if platforms are added later.
Another thing to add, which almost never seems to be mentioned, say, in blogs and videos on is that request stopping is quite common on first-generation systems (those predating the trend away from trams) but less so on second-generation ones.
Hello Marco,
I wish I had found this before writing my pitch for a tram-train in Montreal's East End using mostly exclusive right-of-ways: https://seanplans.substack.com/p/lets-build-trains-montreal
Cheers,
Sean