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The light rail Lille Metro (left) was the first system to be fitted with glass platform screen doors, predating the heavy rail Singapore MRT (right). Half-height platform gates at Sunny Bay station on the Disneyland Resort line , Hong Kong Rope-type screen door in Munyang station on the Daegu Metro Line 2 , South Korea
Rail transport operations are the day-to-day operations of a railway. A railway has two major components: the infrastructure (the permanent way , tracks, stations, freight facilities, viaducts, tunnels, etc.) and the rolling stock (the passenger coaches , locomotives, freight cars , etc.)
The Southwest LRT (Metro Green Line Extension) is an under–construction 14.5-mile (23.3 km) light rail transit corridor in Hennepin County, Minnesota, with service between Minneapolis and Eden Prairie.
In the United States, "light railway" generally refers to an urban or interurban rail system, which historically would correspond to a streetcar network. The distinct term light rail was introduced in the 1970s to describe a form of urban rail public transportation that has a lower capacity and lower speed than a heavy rail or metro system, but which generally operates in exclusive rights-of ...
Construction along Sacramento Regional Transit’s gold line will bring another round of temporary shutdowns to certain rail stations. Both the 48th Street and 39th Street stations will close for ...
The Green Line Extension (GLX) was a construction project to extend the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Green Line light rail system northwest into Somerville and Medford, two inner suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts. The project opened in two phases in 2022 at a total cost of $2.28 billion.
Opposition had been most vehement in Tenafly, [17] [19] where voters had already rejected the plan to re-establish rail service to the town in a non-binding referendum in November 2010. [24] [25] Residents and officials rejected plan as described in the DEIS at public hearings in January 2012. [26] [27]
Began as a streetcar network, but was partially converted to light rail. By the 1970s, most routes were converted to bus, and the remaining streetcar lines (all of which still used the 1904 Mt. Washington Transit Tunnel) were converted to light rail. This included the construction of a new 1.1 miles (1.8 km) downtown tunnel.