r/gcrta

If the RTA was to expand in only one way, this is how I think they should expand. A new "Orange Line" from tower city out to Lakewood and Rocky River. This line to me would end up being the busiest line with the highest ridership of any line if done. It would capitalize on the already established high density of Lakewood and the start of Rocky River. The line would use the already established ROW land.

With the new train cars coming in, you could also make the Orange Line just a continuation of the Blue Line. This would give the east side more access to the west side and the west side more access to the east side. Rocky river to Shaker Heights without transferring.

The headways would need to be 20 - 15 minutes with times closer to 10 minutes for peak hours.

I thought that the station I put on the map made sense in some capacity but if you think there are better places for stops comment down below.

Comment yours thoughts! The good, the bad and the ugly!

these aren't for major systemic problems like "it doesn't go anywhere useful" or "it gets stuck behind traffic" - more those little things that drive you nuts way more than they really should.

here's mine - the old Kinki-Sharyo LRTs on the Seattle Link system have electronic rollsigns which display the final destination in a *really* slow marquee. this was OK when we had one line, but now with two lines, the rollsigns slowly scroll through "DOWNTOWN REDMOND 2 LINE" which seemingly takes longer than the actual dwell times of the trains. this is actually kind of annoying when you're running down the stairs at Westlake and don't know if you should get on the train at the platform or not. what's wrong with just showing "2 - REDMOND" or something without the scrolling text?

thankfully the refurb program for the KS trains include new rollsigns, if the pictures some people have snagged are any indication (though FEDERAL DTWN is dumb - just say FEDERAL WAY")

https://youtu.be/rdLOlV-o9BM?si=7cDTDPEhsWnXjYYM