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- How Trams Really Are Different to Buses
- Survey of car drivers negative attitudes towards buses
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- Trams are cheaper per passenger km than buses
- Trams can get through traffic faster than buses or cars without lane segregation
- Trams do not have to be as expensive as recent British examples
- Trams speed through traffic whereas buses can't
- Why trams are much less affected by traffic than buses?
- Why Trams Cut Through Traffic But Buses Cannot
- The short case for buses and trams combined
- Trams Cheaper to Run Than Buses Overall
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- Videos of Trams in Other Cities, Croydon, Lisbon, Zurich, Basle,
- Can trams climb the steep gradients and hills in Bath (and in winter)?
- Edinburgh Trams
- France operates 57 tram lines in 33 cities all built in the last 30 years.
- Horse-drawn Trams
- In all there are 265 active tram systems in Europe.
- The renaissance of tramways and urban redevelopment in France
- Trams in Bath - 1904 - 1939
- WECA Letter and Links
- When buses replaced trams in UK, there was an immediate 30% drop in passengers, followed by a gradual decline
- Why trams solve traffic congestion - but buses don't!
- Yorks' congestion failure with buses and Freiberg's success with trams
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- – 0 Summary of recent new track installation costs as a guide for Bath trams
- – 2 Track Costs – latest published article from www.tautonline.com www.lrta.org
- ” In a whirl: aesthetic overload in Vienna ” ( Note the article doesn’t mention tram wires in Vienna)
- 1 tram light rail track installation costs £20-£30 m per km is a good ball-park figure.
- 1st in Sequence of anti-Edinburgh & Bath tram letter and subsequent pro-tram letters in Bath Chronicle
- 2 minute tram service interval Budapest, 6 minutes Birmingham
- 2 Recent German Light Rail Tram Track costs – £13 – £20m / km
- 2 Temporary tram diversion tracks to deal with access to buried utilities 2
- 3 UK Tram track light rail installation costs – “circa £20m to £30m per route kilometre”
- 4 Tram track installation costs – £20 – £25m/km where can the money come from to install trams in cities?
- 4th in sequence of tram letters in Bath Chronicle
- 5th in sequence of tram letters in Bath Chronicle
- 6th in sequence of tram letters in Bath Chronicle
- 7 Buried underground cables pipes utilities movement relocation diversions and tram light rail installations costs
- 7th in sequence of tram letters in Bath Chronicle
- 8 Tram light rail track installation costs
- 8th in sequence of tram letters in Bath Chronicle Chinese tram bus
- 9 minute film showing how Zurich dealt with its traffic
- A Bath link road is unlikely to cut Bath’s congestion – letter in Chronicle
- A trams inflexibility is an advantage as its certainty increases investment values by regenerating cities
- Already car-free Utrecht replaces buses which do not have the necessary capacity with trams
- An infrastructure professional explains for Bath Trams why light rail is good for cities
- Are buses or trams the best investment for cities?
- Are trams being removed in Melbourne? (No)
- Article in Bath Chronicle discussing WECA funding for Bath / Bristol trams
- As in the Edinburgh and Nottingham tram re-installs there is always a popular clamour to extend them
- Atkins Bath Trams Report Jan 2018
- Autonomous cars will increase congestion in Bath and other British Cities – 1
- Bath could at a stroke fix congestion and pollution, by copying Zurich’s traffic rationing system
- Bath Tram conference papers 24th November 2018, Bath, WSC
- Bath Tram Meeting – 18th Oct 2017 At the Rising Sun Pub Notes on the meeting
- Beneficial effect of Croydon Tram, general improvements and typically 14% reduction in road traffic in other cities
- Bikes in Trams
- Britain’s cost benefit analysis failings CBA
- Britain’s biggest city has almost ground to a halt, thanks to the rise of Uber, delivery drivers – and cycle lanes.
- bus passengers numbers is falling dropping, also
- Buses, Busways & BRT- are they successful in attracting car drivers and solving congestion?
- Buses, Busways or BRT have never attracted sufficient car drivers to reduce congestion even if they are quicker.
- Cambridge busway failure
- Can trams fit in the narrow streets in Bath
- Car drivers will not use buses – 5
- Car free Utrecht finds buses wont work so is installing trams
- Cargo trams reduce pollution and congestion from HGV in Amsterdam
- Cities that expanded rail, light rail, or tram outperformed cities that only expanded bus systems
- Come and hear the evidence of why trams can get children to school safely and quickly even across town without cars, drastically cut pollution, carbon and congestion and the reasons buses alone can’t
- Comparative energy consumption of trams and buses
- Comparative noise levels from trams and buses and cars
- Cost of tram systems
- Croydon traffic has declined by 1/5 since the tram was introduced, 25% of passengers have switched from car to tram
- Damage buses do to roads, cellars and tram tracks
- DFT-calls-for-light-rail-proposals-across-the-uk – here is the LRTA ( Light Rail Transit Association) response
- Difficulties involved in utility / services diversion for street running trams
- Difficulties, problems and failures with Bus Rapid Transit Busways in the UK From Bob Chard
- Do Park and Rides, P&Rs Solve Traffic Problems in Cities like Bath?
- Edinburgh – why it was so expensive 1 – wrong over-engineered track, inexperienced people in charge, wrong contract
- Edinburgh tram – success or failure?
- EDINBURGH TRAM INQUIRY REPORT ON RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRAMWAYS AND UTILITIES’ APPARATUS
- Electric cars are not the answer to air pollution, says top UK adviser
- Electric cars not necessarily the solution to congestion, pollution and carbon emissions
- Electric Trams Shuttle Freight around European Cities
- Energy intensity / relative energy consumption / carbon footprint for transport modes, rail, bus, car, tram
- Energy intensity of various transport modes compared to rail
- Evidence that car drivers will switch to trams but not buses – 1
- Evidence that car drivers will switch to trams but not buses – 2
- Evidence that car drivers will switch to trams but not buses – 3
- Evidence that car drivers will switch to trams but not buses – 4
- FAILURE OF MILLENIUM TRANSIT BUSWAY, ROYAL BOROUGH OF GREENICH
- Flyer for Nottingham talk at BRLSI 12 June 730 pm
- French trams / tramways / light rail re-installation and urban redevelopment in France
- Good letter in Chronicle describing measures that can be taken immediately in Bath to alleviate congestion
- Green Wave Traffic Light Pre-emption is “…usually only done for trams…” ie not buses (Says World Bank)
- Hill Climbing capability of trams – they can easilly deal with Bath’s Hills – as they did in the past
- History of trams closed, removal, withdrawal, closure, shut-down, in Bath and other British cities?
- House prices boosted after opening tram routes in five leading cities
- How Freiburg’s tram solution was much more effective than York’s cheap bus solution
- How Green Wave traffic light pre-emption gets trams through traffic even on shared road space
- How many rail, bus and car journeys and passenger miles are there?
- How Nottingham actually cut congestion, pollution and attracted business and housing along the line, by installing trams 12th June 2019 BRLSI
- How the French tram experience might apply to Bath – Sept 2 7.30 BRLSI
- Independent study – What Light Rail Can Do for Cities
- Infamous Swansea ‘bendy buses’ scrapped – no longer viable
- Is the Nottingham Express Tram – NET – a good or a bad thing?
- June 12th 7.30 how trams have successfully dealt with Nottingham’s transport and pollution issues and how trams could be implemented in Bath.
- Key facts about transport, planning, pollution, buses, trams and light rail
- Lecture: Trams for Bath, Radstock Keynsham and Bristol? 12th June 7.30pm Bath Wednesday, June 12, 2019 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM (BST)
- Letter Western Daily Press Chinese tram bus has many issues
- Local councillor sets out his vision for the future of Bath – and it includes trams
- London Tram Abandonment
- Manchester metro builders ignored continental experience by not fitting tried and tested gong warning sound
- Manchester Metro sub-optimal as local expertise and continental experience ignored
- Many freight HGVs can instead transship their wheeled baskets to off peak trams on a convenient to them side of town tram stop
- Modal split in London and the cost of subsidy to the buses
- Modern quick to install, low disruption track systems, do not require wholesale diversion of utilities
- More letters supporting trams following John Carson’s anti-Edinburgh and anti-Bath Tram letters in the Bath Chronicle
- Nationally about 7% of journeys are made by bus
- Non-exhaust particles such as ground up tyres, road and brake dusts are likely more numerous and more toxic than diesel emissions
- North Somerset Railway Proposal
- Others think Runcorn Busway is a success:
- Over 33 tramways re-installed in France after nearly all being removed after the war
- Paris, faced with the chronic congestion caused by the automobile re-introduced trams in the 1970s
- Park and rides are significantly more used when served by trams than buses
- Particulate air pollution: A new West Midlands export industry The Stourbridge Rail Car
- Pedestrianization and Bath’s commercial potential decline?
- Poor people are the biggest users of taxis, its convenience and service quality rather than cost that dictates mode
- Postponed: Tram Discussion – Thursday 23rd, November 7.15pm, The CornerStone, Combe Down, Bath
- PRESS RELEASE – 26 AUG ’20 – BATH TO GET FUTURISTIC OVERHEAD WIRE-FREE HYDROGEN TRAM CONGESTION BUSTER?
- Press Release – Briefing on Trams in Bath BRLSI Thursday 23 Nov
- PRESS RELEASE Bath / Bristol secures funding for study into rapid transit
- PRESS RELEASE FROM TramForward Trams for Bath? Conference, 24th November
- PRESS RELEASE Major Success for Bath Area Trams Association
- PRESS RELEASE: Govt considering supporting tram re-introduction:
- Pro tram plus traffic calming measures for Bath letter in Chronicle Oct 7th 2020
- Proposal for a Local Trams Awareness Campaign which can be replicated nationally
- Public Acceptability of Tram Overhead Wires
- Queuing for a bus due to long boarding times and service intervals
- Reasons why rubber tyred trolley, diesel, bendy, buses, Chinese Zhouzou tram bus trackless trams cannot compete with steel wheeled trams
- Recent Bath Chronicle Articles and Letters on Trams
- Relative emissions pollution non-tailpipe ( tyres brake and road dust) emissions for buses trams transport
- Safety issues when trams run over temporary track during say utility relocation / diversions
- Saturday 8th February 2020 – Bath Area Trams Association national conference and get together
- Second letter with data why the so called link road for Bath is not needed and won’t cut congestion
- Self driving cars will make congestion worse – 2
- Sir Peter Hendy
- Small or low population cities with tram or light rail systems systems
- Statistics for peoples journeys within and to Bath – driving and walking in Bath
- Stats show even with no fares car drivers will not use buses in sufficient numbers to impact congestion and pollution
- Structure Gauge and Dynamic Kinematic Envelope – DKE
- Studies into cost benefit of trams
- Substantial benefit of fixed infrastructure for transport arises from how it enhances the value of land close to the tramways
- Tail pipe vs non-tailpipe emissions
- Temporary tram diversion tracks permit access to buried utilities under tram tracks – they do not necessarily need to be moved during tram line installed
- The Croydon tramlink experience is that a modalshift from car use as high as 20% can be achieved
- The evidence (not opinion) that trams are the only solution to Bath’s congestion and pollution
- The installation of trams drives city regeneration urban development by making access cheap, easy, fast, pleasant and convenient
- The majority of London’s traffic emission not from vehicle exhausts
- The number of people using very popular trams in Edinburgh increased by 10 per cent with some services running every three minutes.
- The Oslo effect – how non-exhaust pipe, non-tailpipe particulate emissions are a serious health problem
- The planning morons allowed big box car heavy retail to setup on the cheap inaccessible land to the east Cambridge, effectively screwing the city
- The reason that bus flexibility is not an advantage as is often assumed. A tram’s inflexibility is an advantage
- The renaissance of tramways and urban redevelopment in France
- The school run is causing 50% of traffic congestion in Bath at rush hour
- Third tranche of letters in Bath Chronicle about trams
- This is Europe This is Europe World news How Helsinki and Oslo cut pedestrian deaths to zero
- TIGM
- To fill the vacuum left by WECA and the Western Gateway(s), Greater Bristol Forum for Transport and Bath Trams produces professional suite of transport plans
- Total ( capital plus operating costs) for bus versus light rail / tram
- Trackless trams 9th in sequence of tram letters in Bath Chronicle. Chinese tram bus – why rubber tyred tram buses don’t work
- Tram Climbing Steep Hill and Tight Bend in Prague
- Tram Restaurant Dining
- Tram service attract car drivers to park and rides more than bus service.. Edinburgh experience
- Tram, bus, trolley bus, Frieburg, mode shift facts from Bob Chard and Andrew Braddock
- Trams are more reliable up hills than buses during snow
- Trams are much more efficient users of road space than cars or buses
- Trams are narrower than buses
- Trams Ascending Steep Hills
- Trams can reduce HGV freight into Cities
- Trams don’t need segregated road space, and its not necessary to get rid of cars first
- Trams for Bath? Hosted by Wera Hobhouse MP and Bath Trams. Saturday afternoon, 24th November
- Trams have a much higher relative carrying or corridor capacity, cars, buses, trams
- Trams have much quicker boarding times and lower operating costs compared with buses
- Trams mix well with pedestrians
- Trams offer 90% of metro benefit but at 10% of the cost
- Trams really do run every 6 – 8 minutes throughout the day
- Trams without overhead wires – Rail Engineer
- TWAO, Transport Works Act Board, Webtag, the DFTs cost benefit program for transport infrastucure
- UK tram installs are much more expensive than on the continent
- Ultra Light Rail Partners Ltd Parry People mover worldwide export drive
- Utrecht replaces 2 min triple bendy bus with higher capacity light rail
- Watch this video to see how trams and associated measures deal with congestion in Zurich
- Websites for UK Tram organisations
- who benefits from trams and who should pay
- Why building more roads, or any traffic improvement scheme is not cost effective and does not cut overall congestion
- Why do trams attract more car drivers in cities than buses?
- Why is it that “People really do prefer trams”
- Why the so called link road for Bath is not needed and won’t cut congestion -1 ( Adam Reynolds)
- Why trams plus local feeder buses work as the backbone of a city’s transport system but buses alone don’t.
- Why trams are likely the only practical solution to Bath’s congestion
- Why trams have a much higher capacity than buses or cars
- Why Trams Work (But Integrated With Buses) Whereas Buses Alone Don’t, In Tackling Pollution Congestion, Climate Emergency
- WHY TRAMS WORK AND BUSES WORK IN CITIES – BUSES ON THEIR OWN DON’T
- Why was the Edinburgh tram fiasco so expensive and late?
- Why you get bus jam if you try to run a large city solely on buses and without trams
- Will pedestrianisation mean deserted streets and failed shopping?