Rebalancing Our Transportation Network: A Case Study

Hamilton, Ontario has for long been promoting a Light Rail system for the city, details of their campaign can be found on the Hamilton Light Rail web site:

http://hamiltonlightrail.com/index.html

Details of the economic case for Light Rail are:

http://hamiltonlightrail.com/article/an_economic_case_for_light_rail/index.html

 Similarly to Rail for the Valley in BC, the Hamilton Light Rail promoters are citing examples of the European sucess of Light Rail, Tramways & Tram-Trains to support their case.

The Hamilton team, have regularly promoted the Grenoble Light Rail system in France as their aspiration for a rail based transit system, see;

http://hamiltonlightrail.com/article/grenoble_rebalances_its_transportation_system/index.html

 and http://raisethehammer.org/article/477

The Grenoble Light Rail system consistently features amongst the top 2 or 3 hits on this blog, so the Cardinal will include some details on the system.

The Grenoble tramway network is 35 km long, and comprises four lines: lines A, B, C and D. Line A was opened in 1987, line B in 1990, line C entered into service on the 20 May 2006 and line D opened on the October 2007.

Railway Technology http://www.railway-technology.com/projects/grenoble/

Grenoble Light Rail map

Grenoble Alstom TFS & Citadis LRV's