Photo Assignment 2

Photo and Annotations by Jaime Trohimovich

 The picture above is a bus stop-type pickup/drop-off point for the tram system near the Delft train station. In this, you can see the wide sidewalks on either side up on raised pathways. Additionally, there is a similar point on the right of the photo for bus pickup and drop-off that isn't labelled, as well as several more in the courtyard in front of the train station that aren't pictured here as they were behind us. Tram routes are primarily used by trams, as one might expect, but they also can be used by busses if there is a need to circumvent traffic and the line is accessible from the car route, as it is here. Cyclists and pedestrians are strongly discouraged from staying on these routes, and cars tend to be expressly prohibited. In some cases, trams lines run on regular traffic lanes that just have rails embedded into the ground, but I think it depends on how much open space is actually available aboveground. They seem to generally be used as short-range transit, but they can get people intercity if the trains are unavailable.