Electrify
Senior Member
Neither do heavy rail subway? Or GO trains? Or VIA trains? Or airplanes?
Thing is, those articulated buses can carry the same amount as one of our CLRVs. The trade off is that one takes up a little more space, while the other is on a fixed guideway and cannot maneuver around obstacles.
I'm not suggesting getting rid of streetcars entirely. On corridors where higher order infrastructure is in place, adjust operational practices to take advantage of that infrastructure. Meanwhile on the 501 which uses vehicles which are significantly larger than any bus available to us though the infrastructure is not available for a tramway, adjust operation to optimize performance.
However on other routes where we are using streetcars which do not carry any more than articulated buses, yet have limited mobility, we need to ask ourselves if it is in our best interests to keep them operational.