Infamous Swansea ‘bendy buses’ scrapped six years after council spent £10m ripping up city centre roads to accommodate them Bus operator First Cymru say the articulated vehicles are no longer viable http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/infamous-swansea-bendy-buses-scrapped-9526626
Failed Cambridge Busway http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/cambridge-guided-busway-13387477 ” Serious questions are now being raised about the safety and long-term viability of the busway after findings by Smarter Cambridge Transport show it is “deteriorating fast”, despite only being six-years-old. Some residents are saying the public transport system should never have been built, arguing in favour of a light railway. CamPete […]
Nottingham and Sheffield The property price rises in Nottingham as reported in the Daily Telegraph, 2013 Fast track to a boom “Nottingham’s tramlines, ripped out 65 years ago, are now being re-laid. The prospect of superb transport is driving up the city’s house prices, finds Caroline McGhie. The interest is also reflected […]
Spanish Supplier CAR is providing trams for Utrecht Utrecht has a virtually car free centre and relises on buses and cycling, but 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, a tram network […]
MISCELLANEA GEOGRAPHICA – REGIONAL STUDIES ON DEVELOPMENT Department of Geography, Université de Bourgogne, France e-mail: yves.boquet@u-bourgogne.fr Yves Boquet Received: 3 June 2016 Accepted: 15 March 2017 Abstract Tramways have made a remarkable comeback in France since the 1980s. An organization of public transport based on the decentralized administration system set up in the early 1980s […]
Note: In the above Triptych, each of the pictures has the same fixed number of people, very spread out in the cars, condensed in the tram. Expert comments from below David Walmsley, BSc PhD CMILT MCIHT, Transport Analyst: “ TABLE 3.2 MODAL CHARACTERISTICS COMPARED Mode Characteristics Max. capacity (pphpd) Bus […]
No wires in Seville at left Draft 5 Notes of the first open meeting: Date: 18th Oct 2017. Venue: The Rising Sun Pub, Grove Street Bath. 19 People attended the meeting. Note the views herein, are those of the speakers and not necessarily those of Bath Trams Dave Andrews C.Eng. Organised & chaired the meeting. […]
Above – freight tram in Dresden since 2002. Freight tram trials planned in Karslruhe Freight tram trials planned in Karslruhe Aug 22, 2020, Oliver Cuenca. THE German city of Karlsruhe, in collaboration with Karlsruhe Transport (VBK) and Albtal Transport (AVG), has announced plans to begin trials of freight-carrying LRVs and tram-trains by 2022. It is […]
