cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/11743093
cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/11742954
@FenrirIII oooh... i love this and have thought of this in the past... I just assumed it was unreasonable...
I always figured there was some structural reason for not doing it. I'd love to see a green swath cutting through where I live.
I wonder if you have to mow or if the trams keep it trimmed.
Mount a blade underneath the tram.
The people at nolawns would like to have a word
Eh. Not sure native shrubbery would be the best choice in this particular situation.
It will probably be 80% dandelions and clover in a few years though.
Well, you do need a flat surface below the tram. A lawn will dampen more sound and re-emit less heat than concrete or asphalt.
I'll be the one to say it: that's just stupid.
Lifeless monoculture lawns are as big a waste of resources as car centric infrastructure. Doubly so when it's in a place where humans can't even walk on it. Triply so when it's in a spot where it will gum up and corrode the rails it's trying to hide.
Better than pavement. Of course some native grasses would be better, but this is still an improvement.
This type of grass is native to most of Europe, to be fair. But monoculture is still not great.
I can already hear the thumps from a healthy culture of critters getting splatted by the train running through wild shrubs over the rails.
Seriously, rock ballast has a maintenance cost too. Concrete has higher construction cost but is cheaper to maintain, but creates the heat island effect. Grass can still help with drainage if engineered well, removes the heat island effect, and is not too much more to maintain, since trams are a lower speed and weight class putting less of a load on the rails. Grass is even better than concrete slab for noise dampening. So grass isn't entirely purposeless and make for a pleasant scenery for people to be near.
Can't wait for all the animals to die on the tracks
Don't feed the embarrassingly low energy troll, folks. Carry on.
What about the cars prior that are objectively worse in more ways than one. That probably had a much higher kill rate on both people AND animals.
I didn't say there was a problem with the train lol just don't put grass on the tracks
Tracks like these have been successfully used in a lot of cities already. It's objectively better imo
Seems dubious, but I'm curious if animals genuinely have a comparable hit rate on regular tracks vs grass filled rails.
It's probably marginal.
First of all, these are tramway tracks, and they're usually inside of very urban areas which don't have many animals roaming around.
Secondly, I'm no expert, but I would argue that this sort of low cut grass will mainly attract insects. This might to birds being encouraged to find food there sure. But city birds are used to traffic and will most likely dodge tramways
Only rational argument in this thread. I don't think it would cause a genocide of urban animals, but it's just annoying that a city would put something attractive to them in the path of a literal train
I get that.
I'm really happy that more cities are doing it though. I've lived for years in a city that has those in some sections, and I really appreciated walking / biking near them compared to regular tracks.
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