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

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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 […]

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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

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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 […]

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Dick Daniel <richard@> wrote: Thought you might like this picture Brent Toderian has put on Twitter @BrentToderian A reminder that things can change with vision and political will. ajb@a-b-o-u-t.com via googlegroups.com 15 Aug 2022, 19:24 (2 days ago) to walmsleydtransport, UK, dave.andrews, Dick Whoops! Actually, David – if you look again at the bottom left of the picture, you’ll see a tram […]

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Better bus services and well-enforced bus lanes would be good, but. The number of residents. job opportunities, shops, services etc depends on the area of the city, that is, the square of its size, whereas the number of transport corridors entering the city depends linearly on the size of the city. Therefore, the larger the […]

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Above: MRV-3 SERIES  100 passenger single-body hydrogen powered tram Below is a note from Brad Read, President of TIG/m  giving the energy consumption of a MRV-3 SERIES  hydrogen-fuelled tram.  According to Brad, the power consumption is about 1 kWh/m, so at Fred’s cost ( see his note below) of say  £70/MWh / 7p/kWh, this will cost […]

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Dear Fred and everyone else, I spent over 15 years researching buses & trolleybuses in the UK and abroad. I only went on to light rail because it was clear from evidence around the world, that people with a car (most aspire) will not get on a bus, even a trolleybus, because it is considered […]

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Link to a tv video ( some years back with a Conservative Council, where the idea of converting half the Batheaston Bypass to P&R is discussed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GK3f48S8sk&t=68s Link to Press Article where the then transport minister says the idea is “interesting” ( again some years back): https://www.pressreader.com/uk/bath-chronicle/20190117/283321818563202 Link to article on down sides of P&Rs […]

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