Posted by Curious, a resident of another community, on Jul 21, 2007 at 6:42 am

Heavy rail "least appropriate for people moving"? Please elaborate, providing citations or examples, as appropriate. Also, please define precisely what you mean by heavy rail? Which of these are heavy rail (why or why not?):

BART

DC Metro

LA Red Line

LA Blue Line

NYC subway

LIRR

Metro North

Chicago Metro

Chicago El

Atlanta's MARTA

Paris RER and/or Metro

San Diego "Trolley"

London Tube

How about places, like in Karlsruhe, Germany, where LRVs share tracks with faster, long distance heavy rail trains for part of their route?

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Is that heavy rail or light rail? Thanks in advance for clearing all this up, and for filling us in on the bit about how heavy rail is least appropriate for moving people (would this include all the heavily-used trains in Japan too ... how about the Shinkansens or the French TGVs?)