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Originally Posted by Hybrid247
I can't recall what the other consortiums proposed for rolling stock. Were they 100% low floor LRVs too? In my opinion, I don't think the main issue is with the use of LRT technology and rolling stock (although light metro would've been best), but rather going with a 100% low floor LRV instead of a high floor LRV or even a partial low floor LRV like the Siemens S700.
When I was in Seattle last year, their S700 trains really didn't seem to have the flimsy feel of the Citadis Spirit trains despite being partial low floor, nor did they seems to have issues navigating curves at higher speeds. That probably has something to do with the powered bogies being housed under the high floor segments of the trains and the non-powered ones being housed under the low floor segments. The issue at hand for the Citadis really seems to revolve around the 100% low floor design.
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The issue with the 70% low floors like Seattle is that you lose the open gangways. If they insisted on LRT, I wish they went with designs like the Alberta twins (original lines, not the new low floors built and proposed in the last decade).
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