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Re: “Ridin' the Rails”
Informative article except for ONE major slip-up. The UTA S-Line is NOT A STREETCAR.
There was discussion some time back about extending the S-Line as a streetcar running up 1100 East. The existing S-Line is completely dedicated railway - there is no sharing of rail and road by both train and automobile traffic. This sharing of right-of-way is what defines a streetcar (not its speed, for example). The other TRAX lines do have some shared right-of-way for vehicular left-turn lanes, but that minimal portion of their total route hardly makes them a streetcar.
My major concern about the use of "streetcar" is that this might be a part of a misinformation campaign to make people think that any future discussion of "streetcar" will be for something like the S-Line (which is NOT a streetcar) and not something that is going to be competing with them in their vehicle on the same road.
Thanks for the articles.