[PRCo] Re: Where are you?

[Harold Geissenheimer]

Greetings
YES.  Vancouver was developed by UTCD and used in Detroit and Toronto 
(TTC uses a motorman)
and in Malasia and now JFK airport.  Now a Bombardier product
 They are all steel wheel/steel rail systems with LIN power.

The list needs to learn more about automated systems.  Still too much
hate Skybus there.  VAL in Lille is doing a big job well.  Over 100,000
daily on each of two 13 station lines.

Harold Geisenheimer

John Swindler wrote:

>Isn't Vancouver a steel-rail system using linear induction motors??
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>Was under the impression that Vancouver had the same technology as Toronto's 
>Scarborough Line.
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>John (never been there)
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>>From: "Bob Rathke" <bobrathke at comcast.net>
>>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>>To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Where are you?
>>Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 00:07:45 -0600
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>>Variations of the Skybus concept work well - and have since as long ago as
>>1974 - at Dallas-Ft. Worth and Tampa Airports, and later at airports in
>>Newark and Chicago.  These applications are basically horizontal elevators,
>>using 1960's technology to transport stand-up riders less than three miles,
>>to a few stops, without an operator.  Unfortunately, in Pittsburgh from 
>>1963
>>to around 1975, the small Skybus vehicles were promoted as an alternative 
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>>higher capacity light rail over distances of 15 miles where trips of 45
>>minutes required a higher degree of passenger comfort.
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>>By the 1990's in Vancouver, engineers had figured out how to combine a
>>higher capacity, longer distance system with auomated operation.
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>>Bob 2/23/04
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>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Harold Geissenheimer" <transitmgr2 at earthlink.net>
>>To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>>Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 1:10 PM
>>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Where are you?
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>>>Ed and others
>>>Ed.  you are right.  Sky bus woirks well at many airports
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>>>Tampa, Seattle, Orlando, Denver, Atlanta, Pgh,San Francisco, Frankfurt,
>>>Miami
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>>>and the downtown people mover in Miami (expanded several times)
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>>>Westinghouse wanted Sky bus to create manufacturing jobs in Pgh.
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>>>In fact they did.  Plant is in West Miflin.  Ownership went from
>>>WElectric to
>>>AEG Westinghouse to Adtrans to now Bombardier
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>>>They did bring jobs to Pgh
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>>>Harold Geissenheimer
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>>>Edward H. Lybarger wrote:
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>>>>But it works thoroughly well at a variety of airports I've visited!
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>>RR
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