by trigonalmayhem
According to their website, the light rail in SD is wheelchair accessible, but I'm curious as to how exaclty it's achieved.
I've seen pictures, and the curbs alongside the rails at stations are hardly high enough to reach the bottom of the vehicle doors, but the gap isn't terribly severe, so I'm curious as to if they use wheelchair lifts or some kind of sliding ramp or what.
I'm assuming the curbs are so low because they also still run freight along the tracks, but do the clearances for freight require platforms to be so low as to not allow for level boarding, or was it just a cost-cutting measure?
Any help anyone could provide would be great, thanks.
I've seen pictures, and the curbs alongside the rails at stations are hardly high enough to reach the bottom of the vehicle doors, but the gap isn't terribly severe, so I'm curious as to if they use wheelchair lifts or some kind of sliding ramp or what.
I'm assuming the curbs are so low because they also still run freight along the tracks, but do the clearances for freight require platforms to be so low as to not allow for level boarding, or was it just a cost-cutting measure?
Any help anyone could provide would be great, thanks.