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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

IbogaProject

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3. Projects like that need ten to twenty years for the community to adopt

Reply to 31st Street Bridge (Reply #1)

Wed Nov 5, 2025, 12:40 PM

Nov 5

But track based mixed with traffic should only occur on legacy tracks. Philly has Trollys which are left from over 100 years ago. Tasker Street in South Philly has been basically bus trollys with rubber wheels powered by overhead electric, that was 30 years ago when I was there. Most of their system is on legacy track.

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