Much vaunted Belfast Glider Bus has a corridor capacity of 1,000 per hour. a tram corridor 12,000.

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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 […]

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An Investigation into the Economic Impacts on Cities of Investment in Light Rail Systems

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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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Meeting with Dan Norris WECA mayor Press Report:

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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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international experience should be useful as it shows that trams can coexist with cyclists

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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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What we need is some Keynesian thinking (how to pay for trams, amongst other things)

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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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Amsterdam before trams – choked with traffic

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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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