Comment by ninalanyon
1 day ago
What pitch and roll? And potholes in a road can be maintained at far lower cost than building railway lines.
And lastly badly maintained railway lines are just as prone to causing motion sickness as badly maintained roads.
Buses are just… bouncier!
You’re absolutely right about potholes, technically, but my point was more about how people work not the immediate technical difference between road and rail.
If you have a system that requires 100% upkeep in order to function at all — the rails of a tram system — then it receives nothing less than the complete maintenance it demands.
The social and technical economics of roads, on the other hand, practically ensures that they’re only ever barely maintained to the lowest possible standard people (and air suspension) will tolerate.
Trams, the divas that they are, will tolerate nothing less than perfection!