>>2027418Yeah light rail isn't very good for long distance travel. Like here the blue route takes an hour to go from end to end
>>2027405 whereas with the orange subway train it takes 20 minutes. But it's not really meant for that anyway. People just do short distance hops with it. If someone's building a line where it's meant for traveling all the way across a town, it should really probably be a proper train line. The frequency of stops reflects that as well, in the inner city the trams will stop every couple hundred meters, and on LRT type routes it'll be like 800 meters on average. Then on the train lines where they go 10+ miles into the suburbs, it's more like a mile between each stop. I don't know how you'd solve this in US cities, since they spread out way more than eurotowns. Most areas will be too low density for a train, but then trams are just hopelessly slow for a useful service
