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. They were often ineffective in the city centre, causing drivers to improperly switch the tram into off-street mode on-street in order to sound the screeching off-street horn. […]
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 political expertise interfacing […]
These figures were provided in a paper given by Giles Atkinson of EGIS the French Engineering Experts “BATH TRAM PRE-FEASIBILITY ANALYSIS” at a recent Bath Trans Conference, 8th Feb, 2020. The speaker indicated that some tram routes in and around Bath were likely to be feasible, and that there were no technical challenges that could […]
See Also: 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 – “circa £20m to £30m per route kilometre” 4 Tram […]
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 […]
Above: A previous Lothian Buses director, Neil Renilson decided that ALL bus routes should run through the centre of Edinburgh. His wisdom has been questioned, and the picture provided by George Murray shows why. https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/robin-heydon-column-cambridge-ottawa-13462503 The problem of bus queues in Princes Street Edinburgh, Cambridge, Oxford or anywhere that has reasonable demand for public transport arises […]
The trams themselves get rid of cars by virtue of being on the road, and having the central traffic light computer clearing lights ahead of the tram via Green Wave Traffic Light Pre-emption (not generally applicable to buses) You can see this here in the Centre of Brussels, with the Traffic Light Pre-emption allowing […]
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 […]
