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MBTA Kinki Sharyo Type 7 is a type of light rail vehicle owned by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). Since 1986, the MBTA has used the Type 7 on its Green Line light rail network. It is the first rail vehicle for the United States built by Japanese rail vehicle manufacturer Kinki Sharyo. [1] [6] [2] [7]
All of the concepts proposed a longer vehicle than the current Type 8/9 cars, with lengths ranging from 100 to 131 ft (30 to 40 m). The MBTA's final concept for the new cars was a 114-foot (35 m) articulated low-floor light rail vehicle made up of 7 segments, riding on 4 trucks, and equipped with 5 sliding doors on each side. [5]: 30–35
The SLRV is a double-ended high-floor articulated light rail vehicle 71 ft (22 m) long overall (over the anticlimbers), in the same range as many heavy rail vehicles both at the time and now, but noticeably shorter than many other modern LRVs such as the at-minimum-81-foot (25 m) Siemens S70 and S700 commonly found today, which rides on three ...
The initial order of 39 Type 2 vehicles was expanded, in stages, to a total of 52 vehicles. [35] Some of the later models of light rail vehicles had automatic passenger counters retrofitted; in these models, they are on the floor of the doorways. In 2001–02, TriMet modified the interior of the Type 2 cars to add space for bicycles.
Light rail (or light rail transit, abbreviated to LRT) is a form of passenger urban rail transit that uses rolling stock derived from tram technology [1] while also having some features from heavy rapid transit. The term was coined in 1972 in the United States as an English equivalent for the German word Stadtbahn, meaning "city railway".
The Green Line is one of the most-used light rail systems in the United States, serving over 101,000 passengers per day in 2023. [ 2 ] The state of Massachusetts committed to extending the Green Line in 1991, as part of a settlement related to the impacts of the Big Dig , but construction work on the Green Line Extension did not begin until 2012.
Modern light rail technology has primarily German origins, since an attempt by Boeing Vertol to introduce a new American light rail vehicle was a technical failure. The renaissance of light rail in North American began in 1978 when the Canadian city of Edmonton , Alberta adopted the German Siemens-Duewag U2 system, followed three years later by ...
In 2002, the prototype SLRV, car #170, began operating on DART's Blue Line. On June 23, 2008, car #151 became the first SLRV to enter revenue service. DART converted all 115 of its LRVs into SLRVs at a total cost of approximately $190 million, [3] which was more cost effective than buying entirely new light rail vehicles.