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I like them in general, but they really need dedicated ROW to be worth the investment--otherwise they're just buses on tracks
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Right Of Way; as opposed to running in mixed traffic with regular cars etc
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oh i see. that makes sense.
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my dad was recently hired to investigate a series of accidents in a town in the UK where trams' pantographs were torn apart
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whoa, what happened? vandals?
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looks like the power cable had too much slack, and under certain shocks would wrap around components of the pantograph
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but the city tried to tow away the damage trams (with brakes on) so they weren't found where the accident happened
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