AUTOBUS ~ MOTORBUS

TIRES = TYRES

Plural: Busses or Buses

"How It's Made: Buses" - Discovery

"What are the Pros and Cons of Different Wheel Materials?" - The Drive

"Worn Tires Contribute to Chemical That Kills Coho Salmon - University of Washington (2020)

A BUS LIFESPAN: 12-15 YEARS
A diesel and gasoline fueled bus lifespan is about 15 years. This is mainly due to the motor. Battery Electric buses have a lifespan of 10 to 15 years. Battery Electric buses cost nearly one million dollars. This does not include replacement parts, such as the costly and heavy batteries and water system (can leak). Hydrogen cell fuel-based buses are best value to switch to, if must use a bus.

[Maryland's Montgomery County has chosen electric busses that only have lifespan of 10 years.]

ALWAYS BUYING THEM - GENERAL BUS BODY ONLY COSTS: All busses must be bought over and over again. Gasoline/Diesel fueled buses generally cost about $750,000 and can have a lifespan up to 20 years. Electric Batteried busses cost approximately one million dollars. Hydrogen fueled busses cost about $850,000 each and have lifespan of 14-16 years. Bonus! Gasoline/Diesel fueled busses can be converted into Hydrogen fueled buses. Complete makeover - inside and out!

WIDTH: Busses are wider than streetcars, taking therefore more space on roads.

ALWAYS BREAKING DOWN Buses are notorious for breaking down, and many department of transportations do not even send a replacement. This means that even if you are careful to arrive at your destination early, you will be assured that you will arrive late. Sorry that you will miss the beginning of the concert or play, but MTA doesn't. MTA continues to make sure there is no bus that stops in front of Lyric Opera House - anyways.

HAS TIRES: Crisis mounted regarding figuring out what to do with worn tires, as they no longer can be reused due to leaching chemicals. Tires are made with 2000 chemicals, one of which is 6PPD, known to harden rubber. Due to tire wear on roads, when 6PPD reacts with ozone (ground ozone), it becomes several chemicals, including 6PPD-quinone, a toxic concoction known to kill Coho salmon, and many other fish and other creatures. The tire companies know, but are not self-regulating - continuing to use. More and more studies are forthcoming....

"Tires Producing More Particle Pollution Than Tailpipes" - National Public Radio - Detroit

TIRES MUST HAVE SEALANTS. AND SEALANTS KILL.
Tires are made with 2000 chemicals. Sealants are used to have various layers of materials, with more and more of them being plastics rather than rubber. Tire sealants are made of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHS), a "Forever Chemical" toxic carcinogen family member known for tire erosion to go into water (and other materials like water pvc pipes). All over the world are examples of animals, including humans getting cancer and cancerous tumors, including local fish in Maryland's waterways.

PAHS - a. "Forever Chemicals" Family Member

ROLL RESISTANCE: Due to roll resistance,
When traveling on any driving surface, tires have roll-resistance due to the shape, round, and tires using air. When tire hits driving surface, it squishes, making the vehicle, in this case an autobus, go slower. So round tires pushing over and over again against a flat surface, offer quite bumpy rides on tired-vehicles, especially big buses.

HYDROPLANES: Buses, as all tired-vehicles, hydroplane. Grooves in tires fill up with water, and after that, water coagulates, creating a layer of water between the tire and the road surface.

SUN GLARE: Sun glare can distract bus driver, and since the bus driver sits higher, as well as its passengers, can often not see on level of pedestrians, bicyclists, and automobiles, causing crashes, injuries, and deaths.

DRY ROTTED TIRES: Tires become dry rotted when not in use or old - due to time.

"Tire Dry Rot: Warning Signs, Replacement, Prevention & Safety" - Mechanical Base (2023)

Exhaust Pipes
Tire Erosion
Brake Dust
Road Fragments
Dust Redistribution

POTHOLES Due to potholes and bad road surfacing and resurfacings, buses offer quite bumpy rides. Potholes are caused by usage, not winters.

BUSES, AS ALL TIRED VEHICLES, CREATE POTHOLES.
SALT, CONTAMINATED SALT, AND OTHER CHEMICALS TO MELT ICE & SNOW, WITH TIRES, CREATE POTHOLES. CREATURES DRINK LIFE-SUSTENANCE WATER IN/FROM POTHOLES, GET SICK - AND SUFFER TO DEATH>

CONSTANT ROAD REPAIRS: Buses and trucks, along with automobiles create destruction of streets, stroads, and highways due to use. The more traffic, the more congestion, the more cost a city has, even though majority of drivers and their tired-vehicles. And costs for labor and materials only go up. Road repair: Removing asphalt, concrete, coal tar, cement, not disturb cisterns, tanks, conduits,... pour new materials (recycled asphalt contains high amounts of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, toxic carcinogens), pave, only to do all over again.
THESE COSTS ARE NEVER INCLUDED IN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION CHOICES. DEDICATED LANED STREETCARS DO NOT NEED ANY OF THESE REPAIRS, AS NO TIRED VEHICLES (except emergency) ARE ERODING THEM.

HORSEPOWER: Should there be no fuel or electricity, a horse, or horses cannot pull any modern bus due to tires (too wide), no material road guidance (no rails), and too heavy (batteries and water cooling system adds extra, even one ton, 2000 pounds). A "bus" meant a vehicle that moved a greater amount of people that a carriage could, that used wagon wheels. Wagonways are inverted rails installed into even dirt roads, so that wheels of carriages and busses would be inset while rolling, free from sinking, mud, and veering pools of water.

WHEEL-TIRE MOTION: Busses have wheels that can angle so that they can parallel park. The angle degree is limited.

BLACK ICE: Driving on "black ice" - ice that is transparent, therefore not able to be seen, is of great concern to bus drivers.

BUSSES CREATE, "BLACK SNOW": There are black dyes being released due to tires being black and eroding, especially in water, and chemically-treated roads due to wintertime.

BUSES CANNOT REMOVE THEIR OWN SNOW. MANY CONTRAPTIONS ARE MADE TO REMOVE SNOW ON TOP OF THEM, AND AROUND THEM.

BUSSES HAVE NO HEATING MECHINISMS LIKE STREETCARS DO TO KEEP THEIR OUTERSIDE, INCLUDING UNDERSIDE, FROM FREEZING.

NO SNOW REMOVAL ABILITY OR DEVICES ON BUSES: There are no known busses that remove snow, neither with a shovel in front, nor with their wheels being sweepers.

Snow Rake (can work for trains, and streetcars {light rail} too).

RIDING BUSES PUT CHILDREN IN JEOPARDY: Bus riders are required to take their child/children out and deconstruct and/or fold up their carriage or stroller. Often a driver says that the square grocery carts must be folded too, forcing the passenger to take out all their bags.

There is no local arrangement for deliverers, no design for specialized deliveries. Busses that travel between states do deliver, but limited to only where a it has storage for luggage under its body. It does not deliver from a business on its route. No way to take in or load any large packages, like a refrigerator.

WAITING AT BUS STOP DEATHS: The act of waiting for a bus, especially for one certain bus, is found over and over again to be deadly. Even the act of waiting for a school bus is deadly. Simply, the lack of frequent service, and not integrating school rides into public system causes pain - for loved ones too.

Just like any school day, on Wednesday, April 6th, 2022, 7 year old Muhammad Haekal Saifullah Elsyaf, along with his father and and 18 month-old sibling waited for the school bus stop near the intersection of King Charles Way and Grosvenor Lane in Bethesda. But on this day, approximately 8:20 A.M., this family was struck by a driver with their car, ending in injuries for the father, and Muhammad Haekal Saifullah Elsyaf dying the next day.

LIMITED CAPACITY OF RIDERS PER BUS: Can only carry limited amount of passengers allowed by bus manufacturer and fire marshal laws. There are accordion type of buses which offer several more seats and more stand handles. There is no ability to attach another bus or trailer to first bus. Often people are forced to further wait for next bus, which can span even an hour or more....

NO ROOM TO TRANSPORT ITEMS: No ability to transport items unless a long distance type of bus that offers storage below on sides of the bus.

BUS INTERIOR: Seating is often cloth or plastic covered with a chair-like look of separation. They wear and tear over time. The trend is to go to plastic only. Unfortunately, there is no grip to the actual seat veneers. The plastic often makes riders slip off the seat, making it hazardous, especially when bus not only goes, "Up and Down," but around corners and emergency brake stops. Double seats also get loose over time.

SEAT LOSS DUE TO BOARDING WHEELCHAIR BOUND: Seats in the front are meant to lift, in order for only up to 2 wheelchair passengers, so up to 10 seats are unavailable.

BUSSES ARE ONE-DIRECTIONAL: A bus can only go one way. Yes, an autobus can back up, but only for a short time. Buses need a lot of space in order to turn around. Buses, just like commercial trucks, need a lot of time and space in order to park. Drivers ell prefer to not have to parallel park.

WHEELS FLY OFF - DANGEROUS!: Wheels can come off from a variety of reasons - always while in use!

"CMS investigates why wheel flew off school bus with students on board" - WBTV TV 3 Charlotte, North Carolina (2017)

I-TEAM: Frightening Video Shows Duval County Bus Wheel Fall Off With Students on Board [Not first time] - WJAX TV 4 NBC (Jacksonville - August 2022)

MOUNTAINS: No, busses cannot travel up most mountains, and cannot go up straight up a mountain at all. Know what vehicle does? Yep, the tram - the streetcar!

SPILLS: Though not allowed to drink, people still open their drink containers. Drinks (open containers) spill on floor and seats of buses and becomes sticky.

Boarding time is longer due to stairs or ramp needing to come down for a wheelchair passenger to board, push the seats up, have the wheelchair bound person turn around, pull brake handles, and place seat belt on.

Uncomfortably Compact: Standing like sardines in a can, with backpacks pressing on each other is not fun. Certain body parts are in one's face when one does get to sit down.

Buses are limited as to how much distance they can go without stopping. Busses must use fuel such as gasoline or natural gas. Electric buses need to be recharged. Hydrogen busses need hydrogen fuel.

Busses, at most, even accordion buses, have only two exits, and they are both on one side. In an emergency, say, bus is hit and bus turns over on right hand side, blocking both doors. The only option to get out is to be boosted up through a window. This becomes quite difficult should a person not be able to perform this feat, such as one who needs his/her wheelchair or one who needs dog for visual guidance.

Buses, due to using gasoline and oils, tend to be very dirty by its own exhaust and other tired-vehicles.

Busses have to deal with air resistance. This is wind/air that is pushing the opposite direction of the direction the bus wants to travel.

Busses are limited to how they travel as everything must be paved: paved roads, paved tunnels, and paved bridges. Buses easily get stuck in mud and snow as, like commercial trucks, are heavy. Battery electric ones are even heavier.

Many busses are designed and painted to look like streetcars. Tires make people sad when they thought, "We're going to take a trolley" is a tired bus vehicle nonetheless. Not a single streetcar has ever been designed and painted to look like a bus.

Busses can drive on grass and other low-growth plants, but after a few times, would destroy the grass and other low growth plants, pushing them into the dirt and mud. Buses weigh too too much, and are expected to be even as much as 2,000 more pounds with the addition of electric batteries and water cooling system.

ENGINE: Busses cannot return energy in any manner, nor can create electricity. Streetcar engine is more powerful than a bus engine. A Streetcar not only returns unused electricity, but can create electricity.

NOISE POLLUTION: Busses are LOUD! They are 80-95 Decibels and can even be higher when warming up and idling.

More about Noise Pollution {Click here and scroll down]

BUSES DESTROY ROAD SURFACES: Busses, along with all tyred vehicles, ruin roads. Potholes develop as use of roads increase cracks in the pavement. Buses are larger more weighty vehicles. With even heavier electric batteries and water cooling systems in busses, will not only continue to ruin roads, creating potholes, but make them at more rapid speed. There is not enough money to keep repairing roads when there is an alternative that never should of been forced to go away - Streetcars.

BUSSES LIKE TO CONTRIBUTE MULTIPLE TYPES OF POLLUTION - contribute to not only urban heat islands, like Baltimore, but all heating of the earth. Because buses rely running exclusively on pavement, and cannot be replaced with anything else, busses, even battery-operated and hydrogen celled ones, with their toxic chemical-leaching tires, and if ever tyres could ever be made without the 2000 chemicals, will never replace the damage concrete and cement does to raising temperatures year-round. This is everyday: every split second of split second environmental change - destroying creatures and their habitats. Yes, here in Baltimore City.

USES/AFFECTS MULTIPLE STREET LANES: Busses must weave in and out of lanes in order to pull up to bus stops found along sidewalks. Sidewalk space is limited, especially in front of businesses downtown. Trucks come to deliver goods, and, along with drivers who don't care about public transportation, often park/stand in space that the bus needs in order to get close enough to the sidewalk.

STICKY TIRES: Bus tires can stick to roads, as asphalt melts in the sun. The tire treads become ruined, and tires are replaced. This is continuing to occur more and more often due to climate crisis.

Busses have multi-costs (besides health... already covered): Leakage and energy losses during bus manufacturing processes, distribution and transportation of energy carriers, and end of life - having to break down and recycle what is possible, and dispose of toxic rest. It does not matter what kind of fuel for bus: diesel, battery electric, or hydrocarbon cells, there is disposal need of toxic chemicals or materials. More toxic chemicals and materials are used in electric batteries, and are not reusable, renewable, or recyclable.

PART DELAYS: Component production can be off scheduled for delivery for numerous reasons. Parts, such as microchips require a multitude of various materials. Delivery timeframes not met can even raise pricing (unless ironclad contract).

Both Hydrogen Celled and Battery Electric Buses will be less noisy, dropping down from diesel and gasoline powered buses. There are, however, many diesel and gasoline powered buses that, for example Maryland, have been newly purchased in 2022 for use in 2023 and beyond. State of Maryland can no longer purchase by law any more in 2023. So these gasoline and diesel buses will be around even 16 years from now on the roads, continuing to pollute twice - exhaust and tire erosion.

"Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 141, Minimum Sound Requirements for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles" - Federal Register, The Daily Journal for the United States Goverment (2018)

Hydrogen cell run Busses are FAR more environmental friendly, as its fuel does not need to be charged. The only thing hydrogen celled vehicles produce, is, well, water. There are no electric batteries or water cooling system that the bus needs to then dispose of after up to 12 years of life, breaking down the little metal from all the toxic chemicals found in the batteries. Hydrogen busses produce water. Both types of busses are still, like gasoline and biodiesel, are dangerous and can heat combust. With the cost of maintaining an BEB, needing new batteries, run down of motor and rest, the initial cost of BEB is less, but costs extremely more over lifetime compared to Hydrogen Celled. Both however, still cause great carbon emissions that are being found to be levels greater than exhaust carbon emissions - from their tires.

To increase ridership. some busses have two levels. They are called, "Double decker" buses. They are used for public transportation in England. In the United States, they are used for tourist ride-tours.

No ability to have separate section for, "Peace and Quiet." Everyone is subject to everyone else's behaviors, and volume levels.

Buses have low ceilings. Makes a bus to its passengers, especially full with people standing - hot.

Outdoor air is limited. Windows used to slide horizontally, offering large air to come into the bus. Concerns of people putting their arms out the windows made manufacturers design windows becoming a small horizontal pop up, limiting greatly air flow.

A bus cannot be customized to passenger trends. Some busses are longer, providing extra seating through an accordion-like section that bends. These type of buses are however, much more expensive, and transit systems tend to not buy enough of them, evidenced by anticipating which routes are best, but often missing some, not running them on the most crowded routes [Baltimore - especially the Gold Bus - North Avenue Corridor.] The issue is that with a bus, half the route the bus could be empty. A bus route cannot specify different busses for different segments for optimum people-mover need.

Busses have great difficulty going up and down hills, especially evidenced by San Francisco's legendary steep hills. But even low hills, especially a series of them, buses simply cannot do the job. They are too heavy, and those that are electric battery will have even more difficulty. The biggest issue is if a bus does get up a hill, it is much more difficult to control the acceleration down, and with wet and icy conditions, has propensity to hydroplane, and crash.

Labor is more costly due to need of more drivers to serve less people. Each bus must have one driver. Busses cannot be linked together.

Route changes or interruptions due to various civic and sports events like parades or community festivals, automobile/vehicle accidents, construction or police matter, temporarily increasing route length (and for electric-batteried busses, impacts charging need).

For electric-batteried buses, natural disasters can limit access to chargers or require route changes. The chargers may not work, or may be no longer "grounded" electricity (cause electric shocks) especially in lightening and thunder storms.

DEADHEAD TIME. The distance a bus must travel while not in service to a beginning of a route - the driver's shift, and while also not in service, to return to the bus to its depot is called, "deadhead." [Electric-batteried busses' routes must be located close enough to the depot so that they have enough remaining charge to return to depot after route completion.]

Busses can be easily hijacked, evidenced by below video. Since buses have no fixed route, and the bus driver is in the front seat, inches from the boarding passengers, drivers are at risk - by everyone. A person can become a hijacker without pre-meditating it. Crowded bus increasingly stimulating for the hijacker. Less exits than a streetcar makes it more dangerous. A bus can be driven on a whim wherever the hijacker wants to go, making it especially dangerous to be directed to drive at high speeds (chase).

"New York MTA Bus Hijacking" - CBS New York (October 2022)

"Six Die After Bus Driver's Throat Slashed" - The Michigan Daily (2001)

"Greyhound Turns 100: Hijackings, Accidents, a Decapitation, and Now Wifi" - The Boston Globe (2014)

BUSSES MADE FOR A SUBDUED & LAMENTABLE SOCIETY Buses have back bench seating, usually where 5 or 6 people can sit. This increases the amount of people that can sit. Due to its location, the people who choose to sit there tend to have a long ride. Often it is to ride just to ride, or even a much needed nap. Sitting on the bench-like seating is usually darker, even during the day, and air circulation is often a challenge. With less doors to exit, blocked by corner seating (created by sitting next to back and side walls and seats in front), it's no wonder it is nicknamed, "The great escape."
Buses are enclosed, with no ability to hop on and off, like streetcars can be utilized. Until recently, buses had full windows which people used for great air circulation. These days busses have very small windows near ceiling of buses. The aura of buses were built "to bus," meaning, over-pack with people into a bus to transport crowds. [This occurs every school day and special events.] Public buses, evidenced by lack of fresh air, hard seats, and few seats (wheelchairs can take as many as 5 seats space) are not meant for pleasure riding.

DRIVER CHOICES: Driving can be tedious. A bus driver can speed up and slow down as pleased. A bus driver can veer off the route.

Crowded busses are perfect places for perverts to grace past others, touching while under guise that it is innocent due to close proximity. The way the seats are set up, parallel and perpendicular fully to the interior of bus body, making stand room set up for more of these groping events to occur.
[Pink Tax cost and harassment to boot...]

"The Pink Tax on Transportation: Women's Challenges in Mobility" - Rudin Center for Transportation - New York University (2018)

WEAVING Buses have to weave in and out of lanes where often there are parked cars, further slowing down trips. Often people not only "sit" their cars running in the bus stops, but actually will park and leave at bus stops. This makes it difficult to safely allow passengers to deboard.

BICYCLES Bicycles are placed in front of bus in a fold down locking dispenser. It is limited to 2 bikes at a time.

WRONG FOR HUMANITY: Batteried-Electric charged vehicles, including busses have more than danger, heavy weight destroying roads, bridges, tunnels, parking lots (New York City - April 2023), but humanely. Child labor and slave-low wages to mine, risking lives for owners, and mining while the owners are away....

"Blood Cobalt: The Congo's Dangerous and Deadly Green Energy Mines" - Foreign Correspondent ABC News: In-depth [70% of Cobalt comes from Democratic Republic of Congo] (2022)

FAKE BATTERIES: There are a lot of Lithium Ion Batteries, and a lot of people who will switch them for boatloads of money. So they can show up in any jurisdiction. This is not just for motor vehicles. It is unlikely that a fire can be put out. It simply burns until self-exhausted.

"Safety and Quality Issues of Counterfeit Lithium-Ion Cells" - ACS Energy Letters (2023)

SCHOOL BUSSES: Municipalities who choose to "bus" their school children can and do have bus driver shortages. Unless they own the busses and hire as government employees, they also can have private owner contract disputes, and even strikes. Lack of public transportation means that kids will need to be driven to school. Coordinating car pools and schedules still may not allow certain parents to get to work, other appointments on time....

FAKE "TRAMS" MAIM AND KILL": Tire wheeled vehicles makes the drivers able to drive in whatever direction they want to go. Rails indicate where a true Tram - a streetcar travels and are more safe. It is still same rule no matter whatever type of transportation: If it is bigger than you, don't attempt to cross in front of it, as it will hurt you. So especially don't run in front of any vehicle!

HOW MUCH ARE BUSSES?

SCHOOL BUSSES: "In 2021, 22.5% of schools plan to invest in clean diesel buses. In North Carolina, the average Type C bus retires after 20 years (about 250,000 miles), while the smaller Type A and Type B buses last 14.3 years. With an average fleet age hovering at 9.2 years, schools usually retire a few buses each year as they reach the end of their useful life span."

NEW BUSSES: "New buses can cost anywhere from $90,000 to $290,000, depending on the type. Most schools need to apply for financing and grants to cover their fleet renewal costs. The added investment can be worth the price with lower initial maintenance costs and longer service life out of every vehicle." - Gregory Poole CAT

- "How Much Does a School Bus Cost?" - Gregory Poole CAT

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STREETCAR

Steel Wheels

Known also as: Trams, Tramways, Tramvays, Trikken, and Trolleys

STREETCARS ARE AGELESS: 100+ YEARS ~ Still running rails!!!!
With proper cosmetic maintenance, streetcar bodies can last even well over 125 years. The Saint Charles streetcars are evidence that daily high use streetcars continue to be the best investment. Dallas has, affectionate, "Rosie." A century plus investment.

STREETCARS COST WHAT???? $25,000? YES. And made to last - perhaps forever!
Streetcars are inexpensive, and are well advised to purchase used ones, as, actually the older the better. In Belmont, North Carolina, in 2022, Belmont Trolley Inc., purchased a used Canadian Streetcar for $25,000. Memphis, Tennesseans have a well known reputation for their auction techniques, as their whole Streetcar fleet are the oldies and goodies! Restoring streetcars are also a luxury, that Baltimore is lucky to have such passionate engineers and inquiring fans! I can't wait for it to be part of the formal Vocational Arts School and Guilds!!!!

WIDTH: Streetcars are slimer than buses, taking up less space on roads.

NO TIRES NEEDED. SO NO CHEMICALS!
Ability to be assured that there is no need to figure out what to do with worn parts / items. Tires are made with 2000 chemicals, one of which is 6PPD, known to harden rubber. Due to tire wear on roads, when 6PPD reacts with ozone (ground ozone), it becomes several chemicals, including 6PPD-quinone, a toxic concoction known to kill Coho salmon, and many other fish and other creatures. The tire companies know, but are not self-regulating. More and more studies are forthcoming regarding 6PPD-quinone....

NO TIRES NEEDED, HENCE, NO SEALANTS NEEDED TOO.
Tires are made with 2000 chemicals. Sealants are used to have various layers of materials, with more and more of them being plastics rather than rubber. Tire sealants are made of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHS), a "Forever Chemical" toxic carcinogen family member known for tire erosion to go into water (and other materials like water pvc pipes). All over the world are examples of animals, including humans getting cancer and cancerous tumors, including local fish in Maryland's waterways.

PAHS - "The Forever Chemicals" Family Member

NO TIRES SO NO ROLL-RESISTANCE. Roll-resistance makes tired-use vehicles go slower due to tires compressing on any surface, paved or unpaved.

NO TIRES, SO NO HYDROPLANING. Steel wheels on steel rails push away water. Keeps water going into the ground.

RAIL TRACKS Runs on rails. Offers a balanced and smooth ride.

"LOOK MOM, NO TRACKS! Runs on rails. Although not advisable, streetcars can run trackless on their steel wheels. Streetcars are infamous on running right on snow - whether on urban or rural streets. Even - no street!

HORSEPOWER: Should there be no fuel or electricity, a horse, or horses can pull any streetcar due to rail guidance. Streetcars are quite light compared to a bus, especially electric-charged batteried buses, which must carry a water cooling system, adding even one ton - 2,000 additional pounds. Mayor Thomas Swann, after being the head of The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, brought the horse-drawn streetcar he saw in other cities, which initiated about 35 years later, the invention of the electric streetcar by Leo Daft.

YELLOW LIVERLY ~ PCC STREETCAR NUMBER 7314

BALTIMORE IN THE 1950'S ~ WHEELS ANGLE FOR TRAVELING ARCS

STREETCARS HAVE WHEELS THAT CAN CHANGE DIRECTION: When the tracks are arced, streetcars can angle their wheels, guiding its solid body around the bend. The Streetcar Operators are well trained, and shift the gears needed to move the streetcars along. This eliminates the need for bendable materials that don't have much lifespan.

Streetcars have melting devices for their wires and tracks, never needing to deal with any type of ice. Black ice is not of any concern to streetcars, or their drivers.

"Beaver Valley Traction Snow Sweeper IN ACTION!!!" Washington, Pennsylvania

Can carry unlimited amount of passengers due to capability to attach more cars.

Ability to carry unlimited amount of personal grocery carts, baby carriages, and bicycles. No need to take babies or items out, as to be forced to fold up.

Ability to design streetcars for specialized deliveries for large packages, even to carry refrigerators! Streetcars can be designed into segments that cater to unlimited wheelchaired passengers, bicycle riders, baby carriages, strollers, and food carts that are roll-on - roll-off.

"Opportunities Abound for Transporting Goods by Tram - If Properly Coordinated" (2011)

Streetcars are able to collect local trash and cargo (even including groceries); large and small items. Zurich, Switzerland is doing it. So can we.
For Streetcars, "Moving Day is Everyday" - and forever more.

ZüRICH'S E-TRAM: DELIVERS CARGO AND COLLECTS TRASH

ZüRICH'S CARGO / E-TRAM: DELIVERS CARGO AND COLLECTS TRASH

ROMANIA: Cargo Electronic Recycling and Party Tramvays: [Just 2 of Hundreds of Tram/Streetcar Uses "Tramvaiul Reciclrii, lansat de Salubris, Primria Municipiului Iai i CTP" (2021)

Saves unlimited about of fuel, time, and cost for local and statewide shipping. Ability to have items shipped and delivered from one stop to another, whether with passenger who ordered items or not. Will help, especially small businesses to compete with large ones due to miniscule shipping and handling costs.

Streetcar interior: Supersedes light rail seating due to being able to shift the backs of seats. Ability to always sit forward. Seats made of quick-growing planked wood, such as pine and bamboo are sustainable and renewable resources. Sustainable woods are simple to stain, and protect, and seal using natural "Drying Oils": Linseed, Tung, Refined Hemp, Soy, and Walnut oils. Beeswax & Carnauba Wax can be used as another layer of protection, great especially on top of hemp and walnut oils.

More at: "A Guide to Non-Toxic Sealers, Stains and Varnishes" - My Chemical-Free House

"The Trolley Song" in Boston Trolleys! - Beantown Swing Orchestra

An entire Orchestra can fit in a streetcar!

With quick service so plentiful, only drinks that have a screw-on lid or cap will be allowed. No more sticky seats and floors!

Unlimited travel. Streetcars need no fuel or charging. As long as there is electric current, streetcars can go on - forever.

Streetcars tend to stay vastly cleaner longer than busses. They do not emit emissions, especially from gasoline, oils, and tire erosion. Less maintenance = less labor cost.

Streetcars tend to be clean. Of course, like buses, it depends on its passengers. However, the nicer experience lends itself to passengers want their environment to stay nice.

Busses, at most, even accordion buses, have only two exits, and they are both on one side. In an emergency, say, bus is hit and bus turns over on right hand side, blocking both doors. The only option to get out is to be boosted up through a window. This becomes quite difficult should a person not be able to perform this feat, such as one who needs his/her wheelchair or one who needs dog for visual guidance.

Streetcars can travel on rail-only bridges and docks. Streetcars can even travel on tracks on beaches and in tidal water. Streetcars do well even on 200 year old tracks, as they are lighter and can absorb more imperfections.

VACATION LOVE & LORE Streetcars are seen as a special treat, and people all across the United States go to cities where there are cablecars and streetcars like San Francisco, and also go to Trolley Museums in their home towns and state. It is all about the tranquil smoothness of the ride that cannot be beat. Tired vehicles cannot ever give a smooth ride. With the clanks of the bells, taking a seat on the long bench or on one of the bi-directional seats, off you go into a world that one proclaims, knowing for sure, "The Streetcar Rules! Bring back the Kings and Queens of Transportation!"

Streetcar routes have grass and other low-growth plants growing around their rails. Grass covered lanes displaces asphalt, concrete, cement, and tar that, especially the sand to produce are becoming more and more pricey and scarce (sand particles have different shapes, so beach sand does not work). Streetcar rails cools the earth, especially in Urban Heat Islands (of which Baltimore and Annapolis are).

In wet weather, streetcars are always ready. They are equipped with sanders that automatically engage when additional traction is needed on the tracks. Additionally, when too cold, track switches are equipped with underground heaters to keep the mechanisms warm and pliable.

In the winter, streetcars are more than ready to travel too. They are equipped with sanders that automatically engage when additional traction is needed on the tracks. Additionally, when too icy, track switches are equipped with underground heaters to keep the mechanisms warm and pliable. In blizzard blasts, brushes are used to brush off snow off the rails. Ice can form on the Overhead Catenary System (OCS) (the overhead electric cords) when the temperature is at or below 34 degrees. During ice storms, streetcars must run every 15-20 minutes in order to keep the OCS clear and operational. Another reason for frequent and superior service.

NO NOISE LEVEL POLLUTION: Streetcars are a quiet 55 Decibels!

There is a reason why Judy Garland sang-taught us, "Clang clang clang went the trolley." Vintage Streetcars are 100% electrically powered, avoiding not only motor noise but also heating up and idling noises.
The sound of railed vehicles running along tracks are considerably quieter than freight trains or busses; about 55 decibels. 55 decibels equals what a regular conversation registers. Continuously welded tracks avoid joints between tracks segments, thereby avoiding any clickitty-clack sound. Grass or other turf growing alongside and between the rails further decreases sound levels.
Because vintage trolleys are rather quiet, there is a possible danger of surprising people at station areas who may be standing in the way of the approaching trolleys. This however is a good problem as noise pollution, especially in cities has escalated so much, and hearing loss is epidemic. For this reason, streetcar drivers sound a bell, ringing when approaching stations and as-needed basis.

Streetcars do not damage any roads. Think of a a bed of nails. While a bed of nails does not harm while a few spread out will, so rails work the same way. It is called, "weight distribution.' Rails can be set into pavement, but the steel wheels only make contact with the rails, never touching the pavement.

Truly YES. Nope. No cement required.
Rails do not need any pavement, or concrete, or cement in order to work. There are many steel rail bridges and tunnels that are especially built for trains and streetcars. Wood for centuries now has always been a railroad favorite. Today there are a plethora of alternatives to concrete. Since building sand is hurting small fishing families, especially in Pacific island countries because of massive drudging, ending need of building sand for pavement, and use for buildings is a necessity.

STREETCAR & TRAIN LANE RAILS EMBEDDED IN SOIL

GRASS AND MOSS - Europe Inhabitat

For streetcars, grass and other low-growth plants can be grown in between the tracks, making an excellent partner to tree canopies!

Streetcars, again can be utilized for more than 100 years. Still in use. Nothing to recycle. No disposal of toxic chemicals or materials like buses - whether diesel, battery electric, hydrocarbon cells.

Streetcars do not use any fuel that needs to be replenished, or parts that need to go to a toxic dump, or recycled metals that cost a lot to hire people to do so.

Streetcars do not need anything else but its one or two trolley poles, current lines, cosmetic mainentence, weather and waterproofing, a barn when fellow streetcars are in use to "sleep" in, rails checked and welded together so smoothest ride possible, especially for its "Rolling" passengers; children in carriages and strollers, and wheelchair fellows and gals. And - still no tyres!

ENGINES: A Streetcar engine is more powerful than a bus engine. Streetcars not only return unused electricity, but can create electricity. Busses cannot return energy in any manner, nor can create electricity.

Streetcars can have comfortable "Peace and Quiet" cars; meaning no talking, including via telephone.

Streetcars have high ceilings. Often, they were/are rounded, allowing heat to rise in summer, but in winter heat being able to stay low at same time. Since streetcar passengers are able to spread out, making it cool

The windows are large, allowing passengers the best views of what the streetcar is passing, farms, often window shopping. Outdoor air is vast. Windows move vertically, just like in most houses. Offers large air flow to come into the streetcar. There are many other ways, like screens, to still allow great air flow, while protecting passengers.

Streetcars are excellent rail climbers, especially evidenced by San Francisco's legendary steep hills.

STREETCARS DO NOT USE OR AFFECT MULTIPLE LANES ON ONE STREET: Streetcars have one lane. The lane either is set along sidewalk, or in middle of streets. Streetcars do not weave in and out of traffic. Dedicated streetcar lanes with beautiful fences actually directs where tired vehicles are to travel. No loss of parking due to no space "weaving."

Labor is less costly due to one driver being able to serve driving a limitless amount of people. With the driver to passenger ratio exponentially better than bus, and that streetcars are picking people up from where they live, this enables dedicated-lined streetcars to be on time, and more availability for back up drivers to go immediately, instead of passengers needing to wait for the next scheduled vehicle. [MTA tends to never send a replacement bus.]

NON-STICK WHEELS: While bus tires can stick to roads, as asphalt melts in the sun, wheels can never be stuck as steel wheels travel along steel rails. What does need to be addressed as rail in the United States has been neglected for 60+ years, at least since the early 1960's, is while replacing, to upgrade to unbuckable rails due to increasing climate crisis heat.

Promotes "Infill and Redevelopment" for Brick and Mortar businesses. The closer to the streetcar route, the better the results.

How many people does it take to move one train car?
A train car, a streetcar, even fully passenger and/or freight loaded, can be moved by one person; using a pry bar under one if its wheels.

WASHINGTON D.C. 1945 AASERE STRIKE

GAUGING: LISTENING TO HEAR WHETHER STREETCAR IS COMING OR STRIKE OCCURRING

Train and Streetcar Rails can be felt and heard miles away as to whether there is a train or streetcar coming!

Streetcars can have separate compartment for the driver, thereby, in case of emergency, the driver can get out quickly, call for help, and direct passengers as to where to go to safety, and when clear, return to streetcar.

Streetcars have no way to have, "route changes or interruptions" or trip lengthened due to various civic and sports events like parades or community festivals, automobile/vehicle accidents, construction or police matter. In fact, streetcars have and still do become intrical part of parades and funerals.

Streetcars are naturally always, "Grounded" as they travel along steel rails with metal wheels, with the overhead wired circuit. A circuit must be grounded with a path to ground so as to prevent electrocution of surrounding creatures. For streetcars, the path back to the ground is through the wheels to the rails; therefore, streetcars require only one overhead pole, to draw electricity from the wire above at moment of need. Just like a telephone or cable wire, a streetcar wire can be "live" and therefore is a hazard to avoid and call 911.

Streetcars have no, "deadhead" time. Each route starts and ends at Streetcar Depot/Garage. Instead of one or two places that busses all travel to, the streetcar hubs are smaller and scattered regarding to where they serve. The streetcar route will always end, and begin again at the Depot/Garage/Junction.

SAFETY Streetcars cannot bring someone or group to a destination, just because they desire. Even forced, it has to be on the specific streetcar route. So simply, Streetcars, even for just this reason, do not get hijacked.

STREETCAR SEATING & STANDING AREAS ARE SPACED CORRECTLY!!
Traditional Streetcars have seats whose backs can be changed depending on direction it is going. There is space on either end for standing, with no seats in front, making it easier to have room between people. The thing about Streetcars is that they can be connected together, so extra crowding rarely occurs. Usually for entertainment events, like holiday affairs, concerts, and sports events. The good news is, quicker service is usually offered, so having a little patience of waiting for next group of streetcars will ensure you all - seats!

ELECTRIC STREETCAR MADE FOR A INGENUITIVE AND PRODUCTIVE SOCIETY. Streetcars do not have any back bench seating, because there is no "back" to a streetcar. This makes no one trapped when there are many people on board. With more doors and no one blocked by corner seating (created by sitting next to back and side walls and seats in front), often called, "The great escape."

Streetcars travel fast when on dedicated lanes. Streetcars are meant to enjoy the ride for pleasure, and to get to work punctually and quickly. Cities that have streetcars carry an aura of hustle, bustle, and purpose that enchants its fortunate riders' lives.

Streetcars have melting devices for their wires and tracks, never needing to deal with any type of ice. Black ice is not of any concern to streetcars, or their drivers.

LOOK, NO BATTERIES MA!: While there may be a special sign that may have a battery, there are no Lithium Ion Batteries that are used to run a streetcar, thereby no chance of batteries catch streetcars on fire. Fires will always be able to be put out, rather than electric batteries, which must simply watch burning until self-exhausted.

PARTS: Streetcars have parts that can be locally made, making it unlikely that there will be a backlog of orders. Microchips are not needed, included vintage streetcars.

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ALL TRANSPORTATION CAN MAIM AND KILL PEDESTRIANS - SO WTCH OUT!: With rail, it is visually present where the railed vehicle is traveling, and especially easier to be out of their way. Over the head wires let you know too. Adage: If it is bigger than you, don't attempt to cross in front of it, as it will hurt you. So especially don't run in front of any vehicle!

More reasons coming!

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