This DVD from England makes a persuasive case for all forms of public transportation, but the emphasis is definitely on light rail. It shows examples of all modes, including rapid transit, guided busways, trolleybuses and diesel buses, commuter rail, and monorails, traveling from the UK to Continental Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia in search of the newest ideas as well as the tried and true.
Chances are that if you have read about a new transit development anywhere in the world, you can see it on this DVD, in color and in motion: light rail trains sharing mainline railway tracks with intercity trains in Karlsruhe, all the new light rail systems in the UK, guided busways in Germany and Australia, the new light rail system in Tuen Mun (Hong Kong), the trolleybus tunnel in Seattle, monorails from the turn-of-the-century Schwebebahn in Wuppertal to the newest maglevs, low floor trams in dozens of European cities, most of the new North American light rail systems... the list goes on and on.
City Transport can serve light rail advocates as a useful supplement to our earlier Light Rail Transit: A Proven Alternative. The latter DVD, because of its brevity and strictly North American orientation, is still the program of choice for kicking off public meetings or introducing local political or business leaders to the basics of light rail. City Transport should interest anyone who cares about light rail, or the quality of life in our cities. It provides plenty of background material for light rail advocates, and over an hour of action-packed viewing for railfans.
The DVD version has been improved to make it more useful for public transit advocates making presentations to the general public. Various segments within the overall program have been made into seven loopable mini-movies ranging from 2:28 to 17:07 in length, on the topics of Light Rail Transit, Monorails, Guided Light Transit, Improving Buses, Electric Buses, Guided Buses, and Guided Buses & GLT together.
Order code CXP, 75 minutes, all color..............$39.95
Other TGM titles of interest to light rail advocates are:
Light rail advocates can find a huge collection of resources (including more links) at the web site of the Light Rail Transit Association.