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Okay, 37 minutes, but how many km? -- Geo Swan 04:21, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
The Xochimilco streetcar line far predates the time given in your entry. I lived near the line (actually, right off of the Tlalpan line that branched off at Estadio Azteca) in 1984 just prior to it's shutdown for rebuilding. The two lines were the last remnants of the DF's once extensive streetcar network. They used PCC cars designed and built in the USA in the 1930's, some of which were purchased second-hand as US cities discontinued streetcar service (at least some had come from Minneapolis).
In 1984-85 the service was halted and the right-of-way stripped down to the subroadbed and rebuilt to light rail status. Concurrently, the PCC cars were stripped to their frames, re-worked into articulated units, and placed within new carbodies. It was these that were replaced in the 1990's.
As a side note: the PCC was the first mass production streetcar in the world. It was the genesis for all of the modern light rail vehicles used worldwide. It's reliability is attested to by the fact that units are still operating over a short line in Boston, Mass. USA, without the benefit of indoor repair shop (running repairs are made in a pit at the Mattapan terminus).
-- CAM, 1 Sept. 2006
Embarcadero was an extra station (after Xochimilco) active between 1999 and 2004 or something. I know it cause the
Guía Roji map marked it then, but doesn't do it anymore. --
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01:30, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
It would be good if the article listed the current rolling stock. Geo Swan ( talk) 21:48, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
I read this article some years ago. It did not mention that this was an update of the rump of Mexico City's original PCC system. Almost all North American cities got rid of their streetcars. The scrapping of the other cities streetcars now seems ill-advised. The retention of some of their streetcars now seems foresightful.
This should be covered. I am sure verifiable references can be found.
Back in the 1960s or early 1970s I read that only five North American cities retained a streetcar system. I think it named San Francisco, Philadelphia, Toronto, and two other American cities -- and that it did not list Mexico City -- an instance of Anglosphere centrism.
I read that a lobbying campaign of individual city governments, by General Motors, played a big role in the scrapping of streetcars, in favor of GM's buses. If this can be confirmed through verifiable this should be covered in the article on the streetcar scrapping. Geo Swan ( talk) 21:48, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
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The Article refers to Line 1 of the Light Rail System in Mexico City, part of the Integrated Mobility System of the City and operated by the Electric Transport Service of Mexico City.
Neither of these institutions nor Mexico City inhabitants refer to this line as "Xochimilco Light Rail", while it is an important transit system connecting Xochimilco Borough, it is built along Coyoacán and Tlalpan boroughs too.
Naming the Article as Xochimilco Light Rail is inaccurate and misleading, since the light rail connects other parts of the city and is part of a system, not just an individual line. Additionally, transit lines in Mexico City are not named, they are numbered. Gaytanemilio ( talk) 03:23, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
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Okay, 37 minutes, but how many km? -- Geo Swan 04:21, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
The Xochimilco streetcar line far predates the time given in your entry. I lived near the line (actually, right off of the Tlalpan line that branched off at Estadio Azteca) in 1984 just prior to it's shutdown for rebuilding. The two lines were the last remnants of the DF's once extensive streetcar network. They used PCC cars designed and built in the USA in the 1930's, some of which were purchased second-hand as US cities discontinued streetcar service (at least some had come from Minneapolis).
In 1984-85 the service was halted and the right-of-way stripped down to the subroadbed and rebuilt to light rail status. Concurrently, the PCC cars were stripped to their frames, re-worked into articulated units, and placed within new carbodies. It was these that were replaced in the 1990's.
As a side note: the PCC was the first mass production streetcar in the world. It was the genesis for all of the modern light rail vehicles used worldwide. It's reliability is attested to by the fact that units are still operating over a short line in Boston, Mass. USA, without the benefit of indoor repair shop (running repairs are made in a pit at the Mattapan terminus).
-- CAM, 1 Sept. 2006
Embarcadero was an extra station (after Xochimilco) active between 1999 and 2004 or something. I know it cause the
Guía Roji map marked it then, but doesn't do it anymore. --
Fluence (
talk)
01:30, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
It would be good if the article listed the current rolling stock. Geo Swan ( talk) 21:48, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
I read this article some years ago. It did not mention that this was an update of the rump of Mexico City's original PCC system. Almost all North American cities got rid of their streetcars. The scrapping of the other cities streetcars now seems ill-advised. The retention of some of their streetcars now seems foresightful.
This should be covered. I am sure verifiable references can be found.
Back in the 1960s or early 1970s I read that only five North American cities retained a streetcar system. I think it named San Francisco, Philadelphia, Toronto, and two other American cities -- and that it did not list Mexico City -- an instance of Anglosphere centrism.
I read that a lobbying campaign of individual city governments, by General Motors, played a big role in the scrapping of streetcars, in favor of GM's buses. If this can be confirmed through verifiable this should be covered in the article on the streetcar scrapping. Geo Swan ( talk) 21:48, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
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The Article refers to Line 1 of the Light Rail System in Mexico City, part of the Integrated Mobility System of the City and operated by the Electric Transport Service of Mexico City.
Neither of these institutions nor Mexico City inhabitants refer to this line as "Xochimilco Light Rail", while it is an important transit system connecting Xochimilco Borough, it is built along Coyoacán and Tlalpan boroughs too.
Naming the Article as Xochimilco Light Rail is inaccurate and misleading, since the light rail connects other parts of the city and is part of a system, not just an individual line. Additionally, transit lines in Mexico City are not named, they are numbered. Gaytanemilio ( talk) 03:23, 7 June 2024 (UTC)