To see a video of trams passing in the narrow street above see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwG62_sxVME
Interlaced tram tracks in narrow street in Amsterdam, Liedestraat
Facebook post critiquing the Green Party budget statement regarding transport.
(This is a hopeless policy, all free bus fares do is to make more bus journeys for those without cars, it does not reduce car use – DA) On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 at 11:53, Sandy Irvine <sandyirvine45@gmail.com> wrote: You might be interested in the copy below of a Facebook post I wrote critiquing the […]
LETTER FROM BATH AND BRISTOL AREA TRAMS ASSOCIATION REGARDING THE WORDING ON THE WECA MASS TRANSIT WEB PAGE, 23rd March 2023.
MAYOR DAN NORRIS MAYOR, WEST OF ENGLAND COMBINED AUTHORITY BRISTOL LETTER FROM BATH AND BRISTOL AREA TRAMS ASSOCIATION REGARDING THE WORDING ON THE WECA MASS TRANSIT WEB PAGE, 23rd March 2023. Dear Mayor Norris, You may recall that we had a fruitful meeting last year and you were very receptive to our ideas about trams/light rail for […]
-1 Likely cost of Tram Tracks £10m /km in Germany.
From Professor Lewis Lesley, 1 Mar 2023: There is a long article about Coventry in March’s New Civil Engineer, to which I have submitted the following comments: Dear Editor, The recent (March 2023) issue has a lot about rails of different sorts. Responding to the item ‘Travel Light”, no doubt the people involved in this […]
TfL Evidence to Parliamentary Select Committee . Trams are cheaper than buses for Croydon
There is a good Parliamentary Select Committee Report (Summary attached) comparing the operating costs of Tramlink in Croydon and London Buses, showing that trams are about a third of the cost, primarily due to the cost of the drivers. Every time I am in London I notice that most buses have driver recruitment posters on […]
Much vaunted Belfast Glider Bus has a corridor capacity of 1,000 per hour. a tram corridor 12,000.
Dave Andrews <tyningroad@gmail.com> 21:16 (0 minutes ago) to <expertsfortrams@googlegroups.com>, <bathtramreintroduction@googlegroups.com>, TfGB, Gordon “The overall capacity, including people standing, has also fallen notably, albeit more modestly, in that busiest hour, from some 1,104 people overall to 997 people.” https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/crammed-glider-service-east-belfast-has-far-far-fewer-peak-time-seats-old-buses-did-581000 The corridor capacity of tram line can be 12,000 per hour. An argument advanced for the Glider is an interim approach […]
An Investigation into the Economic Impacts on Cities of Investment in Light Rail Systems
paul.abell@pobroadband.co.uk Thu, 10 Oct 2019, 11:00 to me Hello everybody, If it has not already been mentioned, I would point people towards “An Investigation into the Economic Impacts on Cities of Investment in Light Rail Systems”, a June 2014 report for UKTram by Professor richard Knowles and Dr Fiona Ferbrache awailable at: http://www.railforthevalley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/LR-UK-LightRailReport-An-investigation-into-the-economic-impacts-on-cities-of-investment-in-light-rail.pdf Regards, Paul Abell
Meeting with Dan Norris WECA mayor Press Report:
The above article by the way isn’t quite correct. Numerous surveys have shown that on any new tram route, about 20% of the tram passengers will have previously driven along that route ie are now leaving the car behind. And if you calculate the space taken up by the tram, and compared it to the […]
international experience should be useful as it shows that trams can coexist with cyclists
https://www.itdp.org/2022/08/25/better-together-rapid-transit-and-cycling-networks/?utm_source=Sustainable+Transport+e-bulletin&utm_campaign=f5ac665152-Mid_Summer_2017_eBulletin_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fca8d7a24c-f5ac665152-135881832&mc_cid=f5ac665152&mc_eid=b2c2285fbe This new report on . They of course help cut car journeys into city centres, thus making walking and cycling safer and more enjoyable, as they are more attractive than buses to suburban residents. The link also offers a free data source to enable cities to be compared Best
What we need is some Keynesian thinking (how to pay for trams, amongst other things)
John Daglish via groups.io 08:42 (6 hours ago) to main@claverton.groups.io What we need is some Keynesian thinking Richard Murphy Left-of-centre thinking has only dominated the economy for one period in history. The post-war consensus was built on the ideas of social democracy. That consensus collapsed in the 1970s. The rigidity of the post-war international economic architecture that initially […]