First of all, I would like to pursue the opportunity of providing the service of faster transportation in major cities by the construction of trams.
Every major city suffers from traffic which costs a lot of time. Providing a tram in the key spots of any city will decrease the level of traffic. People can get faster to their destinations and they would not have to worry about finding a parking space or getting their cars towed. The constructions of huge parking lots around the city where several and different trams would pass are also essential to the success of the trams. People would just leave their cars in the parking houses and would then take the trams straight to their workplaces. The trams would be extremely innovative with high technology in order to make the ride for its passengers as smooth as possible. A high innovative tram would increase the standard of living of the city itself, and people would be proud of saying that they take the tram to their school or to their offices.
Public transportation helps with the gas situation and parking situation. I think University of Florida very hard to find spots in so it becomes easier to just use public transportation or to walk. Trams are a better idea!
ReplyDeleteAlexandro,
ReplyDeleteThis is a very interesting idea, however I do not see it as feasible, or even that helpful, to be perfectly honest. Maybe I'm just misunderstanding your proposal, but tram systems are super expensive to set up. This is due to, in large part, because you have to completely tear apart and rebuild each and every road that the tram is on, above or under. I grew up in Cincinnati. Recently, the city decided to build a tram system. However, the tram system wound up covering over 3.6 miles, as many areas of the city did not want to lose their road for a long period of time to allow the building of a tram. The lack of length of the tram has made it extremely ineffective. Plus, any tram on a road would work very similarly to standard busses. For the three-and-a-half-mile tram system, the city of Cincinnati paid 150 million dollars. It is the joke of the city, as everyone knows what a waste of tax dollars it was. The tram system would also not be as widespread as a bus system. My hometown of Houston, TX has this issue. While trams work for some cities (mostly in the form of underground metro rails), subways are not plausible in a large number of major cities that are at sea level. Some type of tram, rail, or tube system could be a possibility year from now, but in the present, it would be a logistics and economic nightmare to build a system that delivered people, as you say, "straight to their workplaces".
Hi Alexandro,
ReplyDeleteI think your idea is very interesting and ambitious. Public transportation is a great thing to have in cities where getting around and finding parking spaces can be difficult. However, I think it would be a bit difficult getting planning permission of installing tram systems in every major city. It would also take up space from already existing roadways. I think this plan would benefit by specifying the scope of cities you want to install trams in.