“Lightrail” would run for about 2 miles above downtown’s Market Street, one of the city’s busiest arteries, showing in whizzing, multicolored LEDs the pulse of the hidden BART system. Local artists George Zisiadis and Stefano Corazza designed it for Illuminate the Arts, the same nonprofit behind the “Bay Lights,” a humongous waterfall of sparkles flickering on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
Good illustration of the speeds achievable with an excusive right-of-way.
Cool.
Existing roadways allow three corridors: at grade, above or below. Above could be a http://www.skytran.com maglev gondola, a heavy rail hanging train such as this in Wuppertal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal_Suspension_Railway, a monorail (such as the one in Disneyland or Seattle http://www.seattlemonorail.com/ or SkyTrain like LRT.
Below grade is a subway, often far more expensive to build than above ground. Unclear why none of the above grade options are considered for Broadway, for example. Maybe we get a lightshow for $3B, too, once subway is in ?
Right. I prefer the elevated Skytrain to the underground parts. You can look out at the view. It would be nicer in that sense if there was an elevated Skytrain above Broadway rather than buried below it. (The support pillars would take up some room though.)