You wrote "The APTA puts it in the same category as other metro systems which it calls heavy rail." That is obviously false, and as such it was a fallacious appeal to authority. Do you acknowledge your error?
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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse
Whether or not a metro system has a driver has no effect on or whether it's heavy rail or light metro since a metro system with any type of rolling stock can be made automated. When looking at the SRT in Toronto (which is exactly the same system and rolling stock as the original Skytrain), the APTA calls it "intermediate rail" (aka light metro) which the is the same category the skytrain would fall under if it weren't run without drivers. Of course in Toronto, the SRT drivers were only kept around for the sake of union obligations since they aren't actually needed because the SRT system is totally automated (being identical to the Skytrain).
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