Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
I believe "light rail" normally describes rail systems meant only for commuter passenger cars with integral engines and the tracks are not built to the same heavy duty standard required for freight cars with locomotive engines; often on their own right of ways and with off street stations; the passengers do not enter from the street.
Bicycle riders usually would not have to deal with the issue of riding in the street parallel or in between the tracks of a light rail system, while that can be an issue for in the street trolley tracks.
Let's not go the semantics route. All we care about as cyclists is that they're tracks in the street. Doesn't matter what they're called, or what rides on them or doesn't, if you cross them wrong you go down.
For all I care they could be for mining carts, the effect is the same.
But is was nice reminiscing about the Phila trolleys with you. I was surprised that a midwesterner, and New Yorker would end up discussing Phila's trolley tracks without a local chiming in. Maybe they're so used to them that they don't think about them anymore.