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by TylerE 708 days ago
Trams often have rubber tires, which gravely increases acceleration and braking.

Also, 80m isn’t that long. Trains on the the DC metro are pushing 200. 8 cars long.

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> Trams often have rubber tires

No, they don't. There are a handful of weird french systems (and even less outside of France), but there are more ruber-tire metros than trams, I'm sure. They are rare and have been getting rarer.

80m is in the lower half for metros, but long in the context of systems having on-street portions (exceeding the german legal limit of 75m with a special exception). It's also on the long end for small metro systems.

The Stuttgart system is light rail, not a tram. Big difference.