What would be the average length of a light rail system?

Question

What would be the average length of a light rail system?

Answer 1

Depends where it is. Light rail is usually used in cities for trains only carrying passengers. Depends on the size of the city. Maybe forty or fifty k would be tops. Once you leave the burbs you tend to get the heavy freighters and need the heavier rail. Hope this helps

Answer 2

In New Jersey, length of lightrail systems are:

Hudson-Bergen Lightrail systems are 33.2km (20.6 miles)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson-Berg...

RiverLine are 34 mi (55 km)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Line_...

Answer 3

Anything from a few miles to an entire network covering a city or linking towns and cities in a region.

The best example of this is Switzerland, where light rail can mean a short line taking tourists to the top of a mountain, a widespread narrow-gauge network like the Rhaetian Railway, or anything in between.

Also includes tram systems which vary equally in size.

Answer 4

Richard,

Light rail systems (LRTs) usually are only as long as the city in where they are located (if they are even that long) so a length of anything over, say, 25 miles is typically pretty big for an LRT (particularly new systems, which usually start out at just a few miles to gauge its popularity with the public and/or connect two certain points).  A good website for LRTs is Light Rail Now, which keeps up with the latest goings-on around the country.

Answer 5

our light rail system has 17 stations, how far do you think it will go?