See also https://bathtrams.uk/8th-in-sequence-of-tram-letters-in-bath-chronicle/ Dear Chronicle Lawrence Sanders’ letter suggesting trolley buses for Bath was interesting so it is worth explaining the fundamental difference between a tram and a bus. ( trolley or diesel, or electric bus) What it comes down to is that trams are expensive to buy, but cheap to operate on each […]
See Also: -1 Likely cost of Tram Tracks £10m /km in Germany. 0 Likely Tram Track Installations costs for Bath – French Tram Engineering Experts EGIS 1 tram light rail track installation costs 2 Recent German Light Rail Tram Track costs – £13 – £20m / km 3 UK Tram track light rail installation costs […]
At a meeting Bath and Bristol Trams Wednesday night, Mark Shelford, BANES cabinet member for Transport reported that funding had been secured from WECA of £1.95 m for the Bristol mass transit study to develop the feasibility and business cases which will include the spur from Bristol to Bath and villages and towns in between. A […]
“Trams reduce road traffic on average by up to 14%: the Croydon tram link experience is that a modal shift from car use as high as 20% can be achieved ” https://bettertransport.org.uk/sites/default/files/research-files/HoC%20Transport%20Committee%20Urban%20congestion%20-%20submission%20from%20CBT.pdf
See second letter from Adam Reynolds – “Unique insight into why link road won’t work” – printed below: ” Unique insight into why link won’t work Richard Luetchford, whose letter described the long-delayed A36/ A46 link road as unfairly derided, should have attended the excellent council-hosted Bath Hacked Hack- athon held last year that enabled […]
see also: https://bathtrams.uk/7th-tranche-of-letters-in-bath-chronicle/ Letter from Dave Andrews Dear Sirs, 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 Tram was based on a heavy, sleepered rail system and trams, and these impose pressure at a far […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]