Mount Fuji light rail study highlights steep challenges

Mount Fuji (Photo Pexels, Tirachard Kumtanom)

JAPAN: An interim report by Yamanashi Prefecture into a proposal to build a light rail line serving Mount Fuji has raised a series of questions about the infrastructure and rolling stock needed for a railway with gradients likely to be as steep as 8∙8%.

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