Trams mix well with pedestrians
Manchester metro builders ignored continental experience by not fitting tried and tested gong warning sound
Above: Strasbourg tram showing loud, attention grabbing gong ( tram front cover removed for photo). Here is a video covering the gong issues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY8lRRbQwLE See also: https://bathtrams.uk/how-inexperienced-contractors-and-designers-made-the-manchester-metro-much-harder-work-than-if-existing-tramway-expertise-and-continental-experience-had-been-followed/ 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. […]
Manchester Metro sub-optimal as local expertise and continental experience ignored
See also: https://bathtrams.uk/manchester-metro-builders-ignored-continental-experience-by-not-fitting-tried-and-tested-gong-warning-sound/ 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 […]
– 0 Summary of recent new track installation costs as a guide for Bath trams
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 […]
8 Tram light rail track installation costs
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 […]
The planning morons allowed big box car heavy retail to setup on the cheap inaccessible land to the east Cambridge, effectively screwing the city
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 only without trams
Above: The picture provided above is by George Murray shows an Edinburgh bus jam “The classic example of bus jams used to be Oxford Street in London (eased somewhat in recent years) where it was quicker to walk than take a bus and it was virtually impossible to cross the road through a red metal wall, […]
On-street running trams don’t need segregated road space, and its not necessary to get rid of cars first
The above picture is taken from the front of a Tram in Vienna, running mixed with traffic, not being slowed by it. The trams themselves get rid of many cars because typically about 1/3 or the passengers will have been ex car drivers, and having the central traffic light computer clearing lights ahead of the […]
Why trams plus local feeder buses work as the backbone of a city’s transport system but buses alone don’t.
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 […]
Why was the very succesful Edinburgh tram system initially over cost and late?
Nevertheless the tram system is now an outstanding success, and the new extension to Lieth is on time and on budget: for latest see: https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburgh-trams-extension-newhaven-project-19248103 and https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/lessons-from-over-budget-edinburgh-tramway-inform-completion-of-line-24-05-2021/ May 27th 2021 https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/lessons-from-over-budget-edinburgh-tramway-inform-completion-of-line-24-05-2021/ Nevertheless, the tram system is now an outstanding success, and the new extension to Leith is on time and on a budget: management Fundamentally, […]