>>1025332>City please?Bielefeld. Pic related are options for the route of one part of the proposed line - the line which didn't make it through the public vote. I have to admit that the proposed project was rather stupid and much more complex than it would have needed to be.
Bielefeld's urban rail system is high-floor, meter gauge, with raised platforms at most stops. The plan was to build a low-floor line from Heepen via the city center to Sennestadt, running on the same track as line 1 for about half of the way.
This would have meant three things:
>a new type of vehicle for the new line 5 only>additional congestion of Jahnplatz (the central transport hub) with line 5 trams. The other lines have been moved underground only 25 years ago. >complicated stations to accomodate both high- and low-floor vehicles all the way from Adenauerplatz to Senne (12 stations) So as you can see, it was doomed to fail from the very start. I don't know why the city council didn't propose an idea that would have actually been possible. For example, you could extend the existing line 1 to Sennestadt. The existing line 4, which currently ends in the city center and occupies a turnout track, could be extended to Heepen and everything would be fine and dandy.
