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3121921 westnordost

The Judah Street railway line is tagged as railway=light_rail, usually used for metro lines.
Looking at street view photos however, it very much looks like standard streetcar line that runs on the street and thus should be tagged railway=tram (see railway=tram ).

FYI StreetComplete asks its users to add the barrier to railway crossings **except** if the railway is a streetcar line (or disused or abandoned) because barriers on crossings with streetcars are **very** uncommon. Tagging this line as light_rail thus spawns a lot of useless quests in StreetComplete.

Tagging railway crossings on a streetcar line also seems to cause other issues, see changeset/117174268

So, is there a good reason here to deviate from the standard?