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  1. US light rail is a very bizarre animal for an European like me: they’re not trains but still have fewer stations, they run with light trains as a tram but with higher speed, and so on This article is a nice historical perspective on them citylab.com/transportation/2020/01/light-rail-public-transit-history-streetcar-trolley-funding/604918/
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      Ultimately, I’m inclined to think light rail is a local optimum for low density cities as the US ones, whereas modern trams in France also are local optimums but for a different kind of cities
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