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 […]
Fundamentally, rather than put the entire project in the hands of people who knew about, and were experienced in building tram systems, ( people on the continent essentially) the project was placed in the hands of inexperienced people, The Edinburgh project was seriously mismanaged from the council staff and councillors’ aspect. In the early stages […]
Trams reduce road traffic on average by up to 14%: the Croydon tramlink experience is that a modal shift from car use as high as 20% can be achieved. 24 – Source https://bettertransport.org.uk/sites/default/files/research-files/HoC%20Transport%20Committee%20Urban%20congestion%20-%20submission%20from%20CBT.pdf ______________________________________________________________________ Breakdown of above figures TABLE 4.5 MODAL SHIFT FOLLOWING OPENING OF CROYDON TRAMLINK Mode Users Survey Trips transferred Bus 69% 9,316,271 […]
On Thu, 16 Apr 2020, 12:05 Jenny Raggett, <jdraggett@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: Hi all I just wondered whether any of you had data on the cost of trams. I’ve got some figures for the Nice tram route 2 and even managed to find (in French) where the money came from to build it (see below). […]
Sophy Tayler 18 Apr 2020, 18:28 (11 days ago) Hi All So far what we are all doing, is pointing out the flaws to ourselves. ( we’ve done the same here in London) Our experience in SE5, when we campaigned for our re-opening railway station was that the webtag score was the be all and […]
A good overview of the renaissance of trams in France, the conclusion is a bit so so. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316573692_The_renaissance_of_tramways_and_urban_redevelopment_in_France Particularly land use transport planning integration: “The installation of the tram is seen as an opportunity for cities to redefine their projects in terms of urban planning and land use areas by rehabilitating and restructuring the urban […]
On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 at 21:05, david r https://www.forbes.com/sites/oliverwyman/2019/09/24/forget-ride-hailing-rail-is-a-citys-most-cost-effective-least-polluting-transport/ — On Thu, 9 Apr 2020, 19:58 Ian Crawford, wrote: Hi David, Great article supporting mass transit – I suspect that the increase in ride-hail especially in USA is a reflection of what the few who can afford the convenience regardless of cost, adding to pollution , […]
No one in their right mind would ever suggest that trams are capable of replacing all other travel modes. After all about a fifth of journeys are walked (because they are short). Similarly only 25% of trips are over 5miles long and less than 3% over 30miles. BUT car trips (until coronavirus) dominated all trips, […]
How London got rid of private cars – and grew more congested than ever Britain’s biggest city has almost ground to a halt, thanks to the rise of Uber, delivery drivers – and cycle lanes. Can anything be done to end the gridlock and pollution? High Holborn on a bleak winter morning is a portrait […]
The traffic growth phenomena has been well known since the 1960’s and was the subject of the seminal “Traffic in Towns” Report, which described the mechanism like digging a ditch in a water logged field. Buchanan in that report concluded that congestion could only be resolved by providing public transport that will attract marginal car […]
