Maximum light rail drive on sight speed in North America

MBTA Green Line vehicles are currently programmed to 40 mph limit. E line beyond Brigham to Heath St is theoretically 10 mph max. They will periodically use speed guns to check.

TurningOfTheWheel wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2024 8:49 am The street-level branches of the MBTA Green Line have a maximum speed of 25 mph. They're operated more or less on line-of-sight, with traffic signals controlling most intersections.

This will always be the limit for the street-level branches, as 25MPH is the max speed limit for all road vehicles as set by the city of Boston.

Yes, but although the speed limit is the same, Boston can't regulate the speed when the T is on its own reservation. When PCCs were starting to be used, an operator on Beacon St in Brookline was ticketed for exceeding the 30 mph limit. It was contested in court and it was ruled that since it was not on the street but on the railway's own reservation, Brookline could not regulate the speed and the ticket was thrown out.

Would that require a statutory clause to have rail equipment classified as motor vehicles? Apparently Ricky Gates
got hit with vehicular manslaughter charges since Maryland law had a clause allowing locomotives to fall under
motor vehicles.

That doesn't seem to hinder Amtrak from running Acelas on the same r/w. Maybe that law applies only to vehicular homicide.