>>1757845>Keep in mind that the cost of a road or tram track isn't just the cost of the materials:In total. What is easier? Use roller, asphalt and crushed stone... Or
>crushed stone>ties>rails>weld them>connect to power and such>put tile or concrete on topIt isn't cheap
>that the capacity provided by a $20million/mile of urban tram track is much greater than a mileYes. Like everything in this life, you get what you paid for.
If task is to transport fuckton-ish amount of people with small footprint - tram is an option.
But if you don't have that much demand, it isn't even worth considering a tram line, as shitty asphalt would be enough for cars and buses.
>. Additionally, when you add on the cost of maintenance, roads become much more expensiveConcrete roads don't require much maintenance, kinda comparable to rails... Which by the way, require maintenance or else you end up with russian tram that makes noises, slow, and rails are electric shock hazard because copper wire that connects them broke.
>>1757858Not really. Trams in russia are slow as fuck because money instead of going into steel, goes into someones pocket.
>>1757863Outside of ussr, you had freedom.
In USSR, you couldn't buy a fucking car, so cattle transport was really important and they had to spent money on it, as otherwise who would go and build all tanks and nuclear warheads to attack evil americans. Most of russian cities and towns still use exact same rails from USSR with no fucking maintenance, which results in slow as fuck. Maybe even older than USSR lol.
Outside of USSR, you had people with cars, and cattle transport wasn't that important, so they either used train/subway (which is more pax-a-minute which means more profit), or bus, because fuck building tracks for 1.5 anons, as it will never pay for itself.
Anyway, tatras are fucking impressive, they last forever. And are softer ride than most modern trams. Superior american engineering stolen by czhechs
