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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sat Jun 14 16:03:28 2008, in response to Re: Photos: California Soul - MUNI Metro, posted by Red Line to Glenmont on Fri Jun 13 09:59:23 2008. trains are almost always 2 minutes apartUnless you're riding to one of the individual branches... The hilliest part of SF is the famous area north of Geary or Market and east of Van Ness. A subway is hard to build because if it's a mere 10 feet below ground at one block, it's 100 feet below ground 2 blocks later. Thanks to Google maps, one can make out some of the topography of the city, so one must account for it to a certain extent. Mind you, if cost isn't a big concern, deep bore subway combined with elevators to the surface for access can certainly make building a line in such conditions rather feasible. I'd kill to see a diagonal line not following the street grid from downtown into the Marina district, but that will probably never happen. If we go with MUNI's current plans for the Central Subway, I'd like to see the subway extended along Columbus Avenue, or at minimum, for a portal to be built to allow for streetcar service from Columbus Avenue into the tunnel. That's why cable cars were used. It would be interesting to see MUNI buy modern looking cable-cars... ven if they had to buy (Horrors!) relatively new cars like those in Philadelphia Philadelphia didn't buy modern streetcars, but instead renovated its current PCC fleet to include options like AC traction and air conditioning. In contrast, only Portland, Tacoma, and Seattle have modern, non-replica, streetcars. |
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