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Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin
On the note of transit - I have a question for anyone highly familiar with Pittsburgh: how heavily used are all the rail corridors around the city?
Because there seems to be a whole lot of them and they pass through or close to many of the neighbourhood/suburban centres, and as such - if not too busy - would seem like a natural fit for the construction of a whole lot of rapid LRT for a low cost.
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For the most part, many of them are VERY heavily used, MonkeyRonin. There are probably in the range of 100 trains per day that use the main rail line perhaps 1/4 mile from my townhouse. Unfortunately, I haven't noticed too many "dead" areas of old railway, they seem to be used quite a bit.
Of course, I haven't seen all of them, but at least from the ones I HAVE seen, I don't think commuter rail would work very well due to so much freight traffic.
Aaron (Glowrock)