Temporary tram diversion tracks permit access to buried utilities under tram tracks – they do not necessarily need to be moved during tram line installed

June 28, 2020 / Dave / News

The above images and video below, indicate how rapidly tram tracks can be diverted whilst services are maintained or moved. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33FAA4pzRkA “Kletterweiche” are a form of temporary tracks laid on the surface of the road to effect a diversion if large excavations for utility work is required. See images below from Wroclaw Poland 2015: Please find […]

Trams mix well with pedestrians

June 26, 2020 / Dave / News

Manchester metro builders ignored continental experience by not fitting tried and tested gong warning sound

June 24, 2020 / Dave / News

The original “T68” trams in Manchester were fitted with whistles derived from LMS steam locomotive hooters adapted to work on air and indirectly operated via an electro-pneumatic valve. They were often ineffective in the city centre, causing drivers to improperly switch the tram into off-street mode on-street in order to sound the screeching off-street horn. […]

Manchester Metro sub-optimal as local expertise and continental experience ignored

June 23, 2020 / Dave / News

UK TRAMWAY HANDICAPS Constructing a road or a railway is a far more straightforward process than installing a tramway in a city centre. Tramway installation requires the skills of mechanical, electrical (traction, distribution, electronic), civil, railway, software, highway and traffic engineers, as well as relying heavily on financial, public relations, legal and political expertise interfacing […]

– 0 Summary of recent new track installation costs as a guide for Bath trams

June 23, 2020 / Dave / News

These figures were provided in a paper given by Giles Atkinson of EGIS the French Engineering Experts “BATH TRAM PRE-FEASIBILITY ANALYSIS” at a recent Bath Trans Conference, 8th Feb, 2020. The speaker indicated that some tram routes in and around Bath were likely to be feasible, and that there were no technical challenges that could […]

8 Tram light rail track installation costs

June 23, 2020 / Dave / News

See Also: 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 – “circa £20m to £30m per route kilometre” 4 Tram […]

The planning morons allowed big box car heavy retail to setup on the cheap inaccessible land to the east Cambridge, effectively screwing the city

June 22, 2020 / Dave / News

Above, – bus jam in Edinburgh There’s no bus jam in Cambridge. Well, no bus jam that is any worse than the traffic jam leading up to the bus jam so it isn’t a bottleneck. I’ve marked up a map of Cambridge below. The two train stations are in pink (east of town) and the […]

Why you get bus jam if you try to run a large city solely on buses and without trams

June 21, 2020 / Dave / News

Above: A previous Lothian Buses director, Neil Renilson decided that ALL bus routes should run through the centre of Edinburgh. His wisdom has been questioned, and the picture provided by George Murray shows why. https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/robin-heydon-column-cambridge-ottawa-13462503 The problem of bus queues in Princes Street Edinburgh, Cambridge, Oxford or anywhere that has reasonable demand for public transport arises […]

Trams don’t need segregated road space, and its not necessary to get rid of cars first

June 15, 2020 / Dave / News

The trams themselves get rid of cars by virtue of being on the road, and having the central traffic light computer clearing lights ahead of the tram via Green Wave Traffic Light Pre-emption (not generally applicable to buses) You can see this here in the Centre of Brussels, with the Traffic Light Pre-emption allowing […]

Why trams plus local feeder buses work as the backbone of a city’s transport system but buses alone don’t.

June 11, 2020 / Dave / News

Lines A an B above are likely to be economic – results of assessment further down page Bath like Bristol, (or most British cities) suffers from pollution and congestion, and struggles commercially from lack of footfall caused by the difficulty and cost for persons accessing Bath who, as evidence shows, won’t use buses but […]