Light rail
Light rail or light rail transit (LRT) is a form of urban rail public transportation. The term light rail was created in the early 1970s to refer to more modern types of tram/streetcar services.
Generally it can carry fewer people and has a lower speed than heavy rail metro systems, but it can carry more people and has a higher speed than street-running tram systems. The term is normally used to refer to rail systems with some rapid transit-style features that use electric rail cars. Light rail is mostly operating in private rights-of-way separated from other traffic but sometimes, if necessary, mixed with other traffic in city streets. Modern light rail technology is highly flexible in how it can be used, and whether any given system is considered a true rapid transit system or not depends on its implementation.
Light Rail Media
In Los Angeles, expansion of mass transit has been driven in large part by light rail.
The Manchester Metrolink is the largest light rail system in the UK.
SEPTA's 101 trolley pulling into 69th Street Terminal near Philadelphia
Skokie Swift service in 1964
Testing a German LRV for the Edmonton LRT
Ostrava tram stop with pedestrian underpass.
The Inner West Light Rail in Sydney runs on dedicated tracks, mostly along a former heavy rail corridor.
Coast Tram operates over almost 70 km (43 mi) and connects multiple town centres in Belgium.
The Gold Coast, Queensland, G:Link light rail runs on a mix of a dedicated right of way, tunnels, and at grade intersections.
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