synonymouse Wrote:
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> My beef is with the slow pace of innovation. The
> car builders themselves are very conservative.
> That's ok as a fall-back but I would like to see
> more unorthodoxy. After the PCC design emerged
> improvements lagged for decades - apart from
> better articulation and improved motor controls.
> I'd like to see university techies get involved in
> more radical redesigns.

Low floor cars were a pretty big innovation but LA METRO is now committed to high floor/high platform LRV's which makes them more like rapid trasit cars than Light Rail Cars.