https://www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/Media/Press-Releases/press-releases-2017/lloyds-bank/House_prices_boosted_after_opening_tram_routes/ 12 May 2017 House prices near improved transport infrastructure grow strongly two years after routes open Half of locations with a tram stop see house prices outperform the rest of the city House prices along the Elizabeth Line (Crossrail) up by 22% in two years before line opens House prices have been boosted by […]

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Bath Chronicle February 28 2019 letters page 5th sequence See Also previous letter: https://bathtrams.uk/saga-of-anti-edinburgh-tram-and-sequence-of-letters-in-bath-chronicle/ https://bathtrams.uk/another-slew-of-letters-supporting-trams-following-john-carsons-letter/ https://bathtrams.uk/third-tranche-of-letters-in-bath-chronicle-about-trams/ https://bathtrams.uk/4th-in-sequence-of-tram-letters-in-bath-chronicle/ https://bathtrams.uk/5th-in-sequence-of-tram-letters-in-bath-chronicle-2/ Original text as sent to Chronicle: Dear Chronicle, John Carson makes a number of useful and insightful points about the difficulties buried utilities can create for tram re–installs. However they are not not as great as he implies.  Edinburgh […]

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See Also: https://bathtrams.uk/temporary-tram-diversion-tracks-can-be-used-to-gain-access-to-buried-utilities-under-tram-tracks-so-they-do-not-need-to-be-moved-necessarily-when-a-tram-line-is-installed/ From David Walmsley: I am not at all certain that running trams over excavations would be acceptable in the UK. It goes against the NRSWA safety code.  (NRSWA = New Roads and Street Works Act 1991) Utilities and transport companies both tend to be municipally owned on the continent. So decisions on repairs or replacement […]

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See also: https://bathtrams.uk/saga-of-anti-edinburgh-tram-and-sequence-of-letters-in-bath-chronicle/ And https://bathtrams.uk/another-slew-of-letters-supporting-trams-following-john-carsons-letter/  

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See also: https://bathtrams.uk/cms/wp-admin/post.php?post=5637&action=edit Dear Dave,                 Relating to recent correspondence in the press I would like to make a point about Utilities in streets to be developed for tram services. I can agree with your correspondents that we as a nation need to do better; but having been involved in a survey of utilities myself (for […]

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It is often assumed that the fact that bus routes are flexible whereas tram routes are fixed is an advantage.  This is not really the case as the attached picture and article show ( yes this is a rural scene but the same sort of thing happens in Bath and other cities regularly). Once a […]

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When trams in Montreal were replaced with buses they could not get up the steep hills which the trams could.  With trams snow only has to be cleared from the rails not the entire road, and it is easy to warm the rails only to melt snow.  Trams also can drop sand on the tracks.

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For previous weeks letters please see: https://bathtrams.uk/saga-of-anti-edinburgh-tram-and-sequence-of-letters-in-bath-chronicle/ https://bathtrams.uk/third-tranche-of-letters-in-bath-chronicle-about-trams/ Plain text versions of letters: Dear Sir, John Carson,  misreports the intent of the Letter last week mentioning Edinburgh trams. The letter he takes issue with was not (as he implies) upholding Edinburgh as a good example of a tram system, but merely pointing out that trams  encourage […]

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