Dubai - Oakland International Airport line Tram BART

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1. I read that one of the reasons for the $484 million cost was extra engineering required to make it earthquake proof. It looks very nice but I really don't see the benefit-to-cost in these kind of systems. It's a little faster and more reliable than the bus it replaced.
   (Great vid. nonetheless. It seems super smooth and very, very quiet. Better than anything else I've seen.)
   
   Edit: one thing I forgot to mention. Why does each vehicle set need four power collectors? Is that really simpler than running power across the articulations?
2. This project was a long time coming. When BART was launched in 1972 they avoided a direct connect to the airport terminals for both OAK and SFO airports. You needed a slow bus to transfer to the airport.
   
   Now BART goes direct to SFO and there's this new shuttle to the terminals. Much better.
3. This is some truly great footage! Nice work!
4. Beautiful footage!
   
5. I really like Doppelmayr for ropeways (aerial tramways, gondolas, detachables, and other lifts), but I have to admit, I've never really understood how they manage to sell these things.  There's one at the Toronto airport and it's awful (clunky and slow).  In Toronto, I imagine they won the job because of the climate/snow, but here, I scratch my head why they went with the insane complexity of the cable-hauled system over something like Siemens VAL or Bombardier INNOVIA in California where it's warm.  The grip-exchange station just seems so unnecessary - and that cable swap mechanism in the station, whaaaat!
   
   As always, great video though Luke.  :)
6. Great video !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!