>>1400424>Waste of gasoline and manpower.Maintenance is an integral part of any transit system, which means manpower necessarily is too.
>Except rails require more maintenance. Nope
>So does the grass. What is the point?Grass doesn't require a crane to move it out of the way, in addition providing to aesthetic and environmental benefits that concrete slabs don't
>Cutting grass is maintenance. In concrete slabs it doesn't exist.Concrete slabs don't last forever and have to be removed for maintenance, wasting man-hours
>You should not have PhD in EE in order to realize that having 500-700 vdc on ground is sketchy, Only you have said anything about third rails
>Also, problems with grass happen exactly on systems like picrelated.If it is such a problem, why haven't they removed it?