US Standard Light Rail Vehicle | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 04/06/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Standard_Light_Rail_Vehicle


00:01:12 1 History
00:01:21 1.1 Origin
00:04:44 1.2 Contracts awarded
00:07:41 1.3 Operators
00:11:20 1.4 Issues
00:15:36 1.5 Settlement
00:19:13 1.6 Final deliveries
00:21:01 2 Design
00:26:15 2.1 Differences
00:28:38 3 Problems
00:34:03 4 Replacements and retirement
00:35:17 4.1 MBTA
00:39:45 4.2 Muni
00:40:39 5 Disposition
00:40:47 5.1 Preserved in museums
00:42:31 5.2 Manchester
00:44:37 5.3 Working cars
00:45:24 6 See also



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The US Standard Light Rail Vehicle (US SLRV) was a light rail vehicle (LRV) built by Boeing Vertol in the 1970s. The Urban Mass Transportation Administration (UMTA) of the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) promoted it as a standardized vehicle for U.S. cities. Part of a series of defense conversion projects in the waning days of the Vietnam War, the SLRV was seen as both a replacement for older PCC streetcars in many cities and as a catalyst for new cities to construct light rail systems. The US SLRV was marketed as and is popularly known as the Boeing LRV or SLRV, and should not be confused with their prior lunar roving vehicles for NASA.
The US SLRV was purchased by the public transportation operators of Boston and San Francisco; in service by 1976, the US SLRV proved to be unreliable and scrapping started as early as 1987, but the US SLRV were not completely replaced in both systems until 2007. Although the SLRV itself was not successful due to poor reliability, it did set the general size and configuration for succeeding LRVs in the United States.