When trams in Montreal were replaced with buses they could not get up the steep hills which the trams could. With trams snow only has to be cleared from the rails not the entire road, and it is easy to warm the rails only to melt snow. Trams also can drop sand on the tracks.
For previous weeks letters please see: https://bathtrams.uk/saga-of-anti-edinburgh-tram-and-sequence-of-letters-in-bath-chronicle/ https://bathtrams.uk/third-tranche-of-letters-in-bath-chronicle-about-trams/ Plain text versions of letters: Dear Sir, John Carson, misreports the intent of the Letter last week mentioning Edinburgh trams. The letter he takes issue with was not (as he implies) upholding Edinburgh as a good example of a tram system, but merely pointing out that trams encourage […]
Monday 07 January 2019 The number of people using trams in Edinburgh increased by 10 per cent as figures show more than 7.3 million passengers travelled last year.The rise in passengers has been attributed to extra trams running at peak times, with some services running every three minutes. Please note that due to economic factors […]
Note: The John Carson anti-tram and anti-Edinburgh Tram letter : See also :https://bathtrams.uk/another-slew-of-letters-supporting-trams-following-john-carsons-letter/ https://bathtrams.uk/third-tranche-of-letters-in-bath-chronicle-about-trams/ https://bathtrams.uk/4th-in-sequence-of-tram-letters-in-bath-chronicle/ https://bathtrams.uk/5th-in-sequence-of-tram-letters-in-bath-chronicle/ Third tranche of letters in Bath Chronicle about trams Vic McKinlay who lives in Edinburgh pointed out in picture above that despite its initial problems, a) The Edinburgh tram has massively increased the patronage of an adjacent park […]
The above chart shows the huge increase in public transport ( trams) achieved in Freiburg, and the corresponding drop in car traffic. Source of the above – http://www.ecotippingpoints.org/our-stories/indepth/germany-freiburg-sustainability-transportation-energy-green-economy.html The above slides are taken from a paper given at the Bath Trams conference ( see below). https://bathtrams.uk/cms/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/APPLRG151210-1.pdf slides 18 – 30 in and show how far better […]
The above show that generally bus journeys has declined since 1986 – in fact this has been declining ever since buses replaced trams in the 1930. Note however that light rail / tram usage has been steadily rising. In London they have been rising but this is likely due to the large investment due to […]
https://londontransportdata.wordpress.com/category/geography/london/ See also: https://bathtrams.uk/nationally-7-of-journeys-are-made-by-bus-and-falling/ From the above chart it looks like about 100,000 people commute via bus into London per day during the morning peak. The annual subsidy is £600m “At over two billion passenger journeys a year, usage is around double that of the London Underground. The city has 675 bus routes, with around 9,000 buses in operation and over 19,000 […]
Modal split as above is now about the same as in Bath Above – light rail/tram increasing, buses declining nationally When London’s trams were replaced by trolley buses, in the 1950s, there was an immediate drop of 30% patronage The claim was that it would reduce congestion, but the reverse occurred. Many of the people […]
Trams have a much higher capacity then buses: https://bathtrams.uk/relative-carrying-capacity-cars-buses-trams/ Utrecht has the busiest bus network in the Netherlands, impacting the air quality in the city. Studies have shown that the bus network has reached a saturation point and is no more a viable solution for the growing passenger traffic in the region. As a result, […]
Utrecht has the busiest bus network in the Netherlands, and lines 12 and 28 to De Uithof are the busiest bus services in the country. Line 12 currently carries around 25,000 passengers per day and at peak times a 24m-long articulated bus leaves Utrecht city centre for De Uithof every 2-3 minutes, but overcrowding remains […]