Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Dear Mayor's Office of Greening...

The Overhead Wire points out these great examples of streetcars whose tracks are laid into grass rather than ugly concrete. He shows the T-Third as a particularly ugly example of a concrete rail bed. The closest we come to those pretty green trains here in SF is the section of the J-Church that runs down the San Jose Avenue traffic sewer, where the tracks lie on gravel and ties rather than in a concrete bed.










1 comment:

Dave said...

It seems like such a simple idea, don't put the train in a see of concrete. But whatever reason engineers or designers in the US just don't seem to think that far outside of the box. Maybe one day.