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A rubber-tyred metro or rubber-tired metro is a form of rapid transit system that uses a mix of road and rail technology. The vehicles have wheels with rubber tires that run on a roll way inside guide bars for traction. Traditional, flanged steel wheels running on rail tracks provide guidance through switches and act as backup if tyres fail ...
1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) and rubber tires: Line 1, Line 4, Line 6, Line 11 and Line 14. Michelin rubber-tyred metro system has both rubber tires and steel wheels Rennes Metro: 23 km (14 mi) rubber tires: VAL technology Toulouse Metro: 28.2 km (17.5 mi) rubber tires: VAL technology Georgia: Tbilisi Metro: 27.1 km (16.8 mi) 1,524 mm (5 ft ...
By 1991, five rail lines were open: the Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, and Blue Lines. The system, as originally planned, was completed in 2001 with the extension of the Green Line to Branch Avenue . In 2004, three stations were opened: an extension of the Blue Line to the Morgan Boulevard and Downtown Largo stations and the first infill station ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 00:33, 3 December 2013: 760 × 630 (67 KB): Rfc1394: Add Silver Line for 2014; drop orange-line rush hour extension; add 5 named stations to silver line; extend silver line to Largo Town Center; add 6 unfinished Silver Line stations; extend District of Columbia line slightly to keep silver line inside DC
Washington DC Metro Map-2012 (To Scale).svg by Noclip Maps template-en.svg by Sting Own work using: OpenStreetMap transportlayer Information from: Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; Requested by and knowledge from Multituberculata; Author: Goran_tek-en: Permission (Reusing this file)
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1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge, with running pads for the rubber-tyred wheels outside of the steel rails The MP 59 ( French : M étro P neu appel d'offres de 19 59 ; English: Rubber-tyred metro ordered in 1959 ) was a rubber-tyred variant of electric multiple units used on the Paris Métro system in service from 1963 to 2024.
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