Dear Katie, ( katie@mygreenpod.com) I liked your today’s Guardian supplement MY GREEN POD but disappointed by the uncritical praise for electric cars and the assumption that somehow they are going to help us solve the problem of pollution and carbon emissions. Apart from environmental issues, electric cars just mean carrying on ruining our cities with […]
Note – WECA The West of England Combined Authority, has agreed to spend £1.5m investigating optimum approach including trams for a Mass Rapid Transit system from Bath to Bristol, and a further £450m specifically looking a tthe trams option for Bath About this Event The leading French Engineering company EGIS has been closely involved with […]
Dave, The UKTram website has a report on costs of tramways at uktram.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Briefing_Paper_-_Costs_of_Light_Rail_Schemes.pdf This should be the starting point for any discussion of tram costs. As Mat says, the cost can depend on all sorts of factors, but in general £20-£30 m per km is a good ball-park figure. This would include the cost of […]
See Also: https://bathtrams.uk/cms/wp-admin/post.php?post=6848&action=edit https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/assets/documents/reports/cat09/1907101151_20190709_Non_Exhaust_Emissions_typeset_Final.pdf “Consequently, on the basis of current emissions inventory estimates and toxicity evidence, non-exhaust particles from the UK road traffic fleet should be considered as potentially having a greater public health impact than the exhaust particles.” “Regenerative braking does not rely on frictional wear of brake materials so vehicles using regenerative […]
See https://bathtrams.uk/dft-calls-for-light-rail-proposals-across-the-uk-here-is-the-lrta-light-rail-transit-association-response/ for full article for above image See also for detailed calculation: https://bathtrams.uk/cms/wp-admin/post.php?post=6718&action=edit See also: https://bathtrams.uk/oslo-effect-comparative-non-tailpipe-emissions-from-various-forms-of-transport/
See also: https://bathtrams.uk/the-oslo-effect-how-non-exhaust-pipe-non-tailpipe-particulate-emissions-are-a-serious-health-problem/ https://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/publications/hps-weekly-report/volume-53/issue-28/defra-releases-report-on-non-exhaust-emissions-from-road-traffic/ Non-exhaust particles such as ground up tyres, road and brake dusts are likely more numerous and more toxic than diesel emissions Here is also a comparison of different non-tailpipe emissions: (Extract below is from a submission to DFT as a result of its call for evidence on the […]
Subject: Re: Tram track installation costings The cost of LRT Schemes is very subjective. The cost data available (limited because of the procurement and operating models of many LRT schemes ensures that much of the data is kept confidential) varies hugely. As an example, do publicly presented costs include utility diversions, how many structures are […]
Speaking at a recent Bath Trams event, Roger Harrison, (Roger Harrison was the leader of the private sector consortium which tendered, won, financed then designed, built Phase 2 and operated/maintained the three line Nottingham tram network. He later became the Chairman of the Concession company *D-B-F-O-M) Tramlink Nottingham Ltd and Tramlink Nottingham Holdings Ltd which […]
Dave I’ve provided a reference to a paper below which looks into the calculation of possible costs. It doesn’t provide something where you could insert measurable things – length of tramway, number and cost of trams and so on – and multiply them by a cost read from the paper, but provides reference to what […]
The Nottingham tram system has been highly effective in cutting congestion, pollution and traffic ” Councillor Dave Liversidge, portfolio holder for transport, said in 2018 ““…, figures released just this week by the Department for Transport showed Nottingham achieved the biggest reduction in per capita car traffic of any English local authority outside London – […]
