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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
- -1 Likely cost of Tram Tracks £10m /km in Germany.
- “Birmingham isn’t a big city at peak times”: How relying on buses rather than trams AND buses explains the UK’s productivity puzzle
- * Buses and trams together cut congestion, pollution and emissions in cities but buses on their own don’t
- * The installation of trams drives city regeneration by making access cheap, easy, fast, pleasant and convenient and by being inflexble
- * Why a trams inflexibility in a city is a distinct benefit not a disadvantage
- *TECHNICAL AND ECONOMIC REASONS WHY BUSES ALONE CANNOT OFFER THE QUALITY OF SERVICE AS BUSES AND TRAMS
- 1 Briefing notes why trams (with buses) work in cities better than buses only
- 1 tram light rail track installation costs £10m/km for new light rail tech, £20-£30 m per km conventional tram£10m for new light rail tech
- 1. LR55 Pressure, comparative damage to roads, tram tracks and building foundations by trams and buses for LR55
- 15th October Publ, 11th in sequence of letters in Chronicle. John Edison, Sheila Hillman
- 1960 bus jams and later ones in Edinburgh
- 19th November in sequence of letters in Chronicle. David Walmsley and Brad Read
- 1st in Sequence of anti-Edinburgh & Bath tram letter and subsequent pro-tram letters in Bath Chronicle
- 2 minute tram service interval Budapest, 0430 to 23.50, 6 minutes Birmingham
- 2 Recent German Light Rail Tram Track costs – £13 – £20m / km
- 2. Dispelling the myth that trams need special separate segregated paths through traffic
- 2. LR55 maintaining gauge stability with glue in road LR55 easy to install tracks
- 3 “Glue-in-the-Road” Tram Track Systems versus Conventional Deep Excavation Methods
- 3 UK Tram track light rail installation costs – “circa £20m to £30m per route kilometre”
- 3. Why was Edinburgh track so expensive and what are the alternatives?
- 4 Tram track installation costs – £5 – £25m/km where can the money come from to install trams in cities?
- 4 Why trams are essential to improve city productivity
- 4th in sequence of tram letters in Bath Chronicle
- 5 Overhead wire-free Technologies for Tram Propulsion
- 5th in sequence of tram letters in Bath Chronicle
- 6 – Minimal-Dig / Slab Track / Glue-in-Road Track Systems Subject: Birmingham Tramworks Show Utilities Don’t Always Need to Be Moved: Minimal-Dig Track Methods in Action – A UK & International Perspective
- 6 Moving / re-location of services / utilities for trams installation need not be expensive or even necessary as in Edinburgh
- 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 54m long tram every 3 minutes, replaces roughly an 8 km car queue with 1.1 km of trams.
- 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
- Amsterdam before trams – choked with traffic
- An infrastructure professional explains for Bath Trams why light rail is good for cities
- An Investigation into the Economic Impacts on Cities of Investment in Light Rail Systems
- 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
- BABATA / Bath Trams Success with West of England Combined Authority comitting to the tram lines in 10 years one going to Bath
- Bath could at a stroke fix congestion and pollution, by copying Zurich’s traffic rationing system
- Bath Social – a social network for Bath and Beyond. Bath.social
- Bath Tram conference papers 24th November 2018, Bath, WSC
- Bath Tram Meeting – 18th Oct 2017 At the Rising Sun Pub Notes on the meeting
- BBATA (in association provisionally with TFGB) – organize web conference for re-tramming Bath, Bristol,
- Beneficial effect of Croydon Tram, general improvements and typically 14% reduction in road traffic in other cities
- Bikes in Trams
- Biomethane as the logical optimum tram fuel
- Britain’s cities are more poorly served by non-bus PT ie trams, metro or urban light rail than Europe
- 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
- 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
- Chines trackless trams, guided busway reasons why rubber tyred trolley, diesel, bendy, buses, cannot compete with steel wheeled trams
- Chinese guided bus busway trackless trams 9th in sequence of tram letters in Bath Chronicle. Chinese tram bus – why rubber tyred tram buses don’t work
- 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
- Comparison of construction costs for new tram track vs new highway
- Cost of tram systems
- Could Trams Connect Bath to Bristol and Unlock Trams for Bath And The Surrounding Area? – New Report
- Croydon traffic has declined by 1/5 since the tram was introduced, 25% of passengers have switched from car to tram
- Curitaba is not nearly the succes that it is portrayed as and would likely not work here.
- 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
- Did the Nottingham Tram “massively put up taxes” and did “the Work Place Parking Levy” drive businesses away?
- 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
- Disputed Claim about Edinburgh Tram by Dave Workman (copied at foot of this page):
- DKE, Swept Path, Structure Gauge and Dynamic Kinematic Envelope – DKE
- Do Park and Rides, P&Rs Solve Traffic Problems in Cities like Bath?
- Do tram based park and rides work? work better than bus based park and rides? create extra traffic?
- Does the Belfast Glider Bus Work As An Alternative to a Steel Wheeled Tram ?- Experts Respond
- Does Zurich and other cities use green wave traffic light premption to speed trams but not buses
- DRAFT COMMISSION FOR A REGIONAL SCOPING STUDY OF RAPID TRANSIT OPTIONS FOR THE WEST OF ENGLAND
- 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 of modal the impact of tram investment on productivity and property values
- 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
- Facebook post critiquing the Green Party budget statement regarding transport.
- Factors influencing the choice of transport mode by users
- FAILURE OF MILLENIUM TRANSIT BUSWAY, ROYAL BOROUGH OF GREENICH
- Flyer for Nottingham talk at BRLSI 12 June 730 pm
- Free Public Transport in Luxembourg – not as good a policy as it might seems
- French trams / tramways / light rail re-installation and urban redevelopment in France
- Galway Very Light Rail Webinar on 20th April 2021 featuring talks from Frieburg, Bath, and others
- GLUAS webinar for light rail for Galway, Eire, 20th April 2021
- 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 provided for trams…” ie not buses – World Bank – & Liverpool bus lanes demise
- 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 feasible / possible is it to convert a guided busway to a tramway?
- How Freiburg’s tram solution was much more effective than York’s cheap bus solution
- How Green Wave traffic signal pre-emption / traffic light pre-emption gets trams through traffic on the London Road, Bath
- 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 paradoxically trams can speed through traffic, without having reserved lanes, buses generally can’t
- How safe, dangerous risky, are trams compared to other road transit systems such as buses?
- How the Dutch have made their cities much better
- How the French tram experience might apply to Bath – Sept 2 7.30 BRLSI
- Infamous Swansea ‘bendy buses’ scrapped – no longer viable
- Interlaced tram tracks in narrow street in Amsterdam, Liedestraat
- international experience should be useful as it shows that trams can coexist with cyclists
- Is the Nottingham Express Tram – NET – a good or a bad thing?
- Is this an accurate summary of the effects of the Sheffield policy of low bus fares and its effect on car useage?
- 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
- Keynote presentation at Gluas Webinar on light rail for Galway 22 April 2021, David Andrews, Bath Trams
- 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 FROM BATH AND BRISTOL AREA TRAMS ASSOCIATION REGARDING THE WORDING ON THE WECA MASS TRANSIT WEB PAGE, 23rd March 2023.
- Letter Western Daily Press Chinese tram bus has many issues
- likely fuel operating cost of a hydrogen fuelled, Tig/m tram / light rail from offshore wind and electrolysis
- List of 40 cities smilar sized or smaller than Bath with tram or light rail systems systems
- 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
- Meeting with Dan Norris WECA mayor Press Report:
- Modal Shift plus other benefits of trams – Briefing note: Making a case for Light Rail vs bus transport solutions – From Coventry project
- Modal split in London and the cost of subsidy to the buses
- More letters supporting trams following John Carson’s anti-Edinburgh and anti-Bath Tram letters in the Bath Chronicle
- Much vaunted Belfast Glider Bus has a corridor capacity of 1,000 per hour. a tram corridor 12,000.
- 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
- Nottingham Trams – Tramlink – financial background, project history, project procurement
- Nov 12th publ, 14th in sequence letters in Chronical. Dave Andrews, Beverley Neilson
- Nov 5th publ…13th in sequence of pro-tram letters in the Chronicle – “Give us full picture of likely tram costs”
- Oct 8th Publ. 10th in sequence of Chronicle letter on trams – from BATA. Andrews
- On Street Running – can trams fit in the narrow streets in Bath, whilst sharing the same road as cars?
- On street running is not uncommon in the UK – in Europe it’s more common
- On-street running trams don’t need segregated road space, and its not necessary to get rid of cars first
- 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 – Batheaston bypass as a park and ride P&R… TV video from some years back…..(Conservative Council then)
- 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?
- Petition to connect Bristol to Bath and Radstock, the only proven solution to cut congestion and improve commerce in 7 other British Cities.
- Piccadilly line constructed under tram lines
- Poor people are the biggest users of taxis, its convenience and service quality rather than cost that dictates mode
- Poor public transport (buses and no trams/light rail) explains uk’s poor productivity
- Possible Bristol – Keynsham tram route – largely off-street running
- 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 – WECA, BRISTOL, BBATA WORKING TO DELIVER TRAMS FOR RESIDENTS
- 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:
- Professor Lewis Lesley on the evidence that trams work to cut traffic but buses (unless integrated with trams) don’t
- Proposal for a Local Trams Awareness Campaign which can be replicated nationally
- Publ. October 29. 12th in sequence of letters in Bath Chronicle. (Andrews, Donovan, Butterworth, needs Sharpe’s letter)
- Public Acceptability of Tram Overhead Wires – widespread throughut Europe’s historical cities
- Queuing for a bus due to long boarding times and service intervals
- 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
- Slow-Pass for Bath from the A46 to A36 plus tram loop
- Some history of tram abandonment and Leeds Trolley Bus fiasco
- 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
- Steer Davis Gleave – What Light Rail Can Do for Cities
- 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, Kletterweiche can assist in tramway installation and maintenance
- TfL Evidence to Parliamentary Select Committee . Trams are cheaper than buses for Croydon
- The Climate Change Conference – COP 26 and transport
- 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 EXPLANATION OF THE MULTI-DECADE LOW PRODUCTIVITY OF THE UK ECONOMY
- 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 physical permanence of the rails and their inflexibity has a much bigger impact on developers and investors
- 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 renaissance of tramways and urban redevelopment in France
- The school run is causing 50% of traffic congestion in Bath at rush hour
- There are thousands of chemicals derived from crude oil, in a tyre, and tyre dust, many of them carcinogenic
- There is a limit to what buses can do as city size increases – linear versus square
- 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
- Thursday 13th 7.15pm – A talk by Prof Lewis Lesley of Tram Power – “Bath Trams, on the right track?”
- Tig/m embedded track costs, removable for utility maintenance, around £5m – £10m/km
- 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
- Total life-time emissions of tramways / light rail much lower than buses and busways, even taking into account construction carbon
- Trackless trams / guided buses / tram bus are universally a failure
- Traffic-free Prague centre at rush hour, but not some cars, taxis and bikes
- Tram Car Restaurant Dining and Eating as a tourist attraction
- Tram Climbing Steep Hill and Tight Bend in Prague
- 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 have much high frequency than buses – 6 – 8 minutes throughout the day
- 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 Enhance the Image of Cities
- Trams for Bath? Hosted by Wera Hobhouse MP and Bath Trams. Saturday afternoon, 24th November
- Trams for improved aquatic environment, less plastic and rubber and chemical pollution in waterways and lungs.
- Trams have a much higher carrying capacity than buses or cars
- 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 offer easier and faster level access to wheel chairs and mobility aids than buses
- 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
- Video and slides of Professor Barry’s talk at Bristol Royal Infirmary, 8th October 2024
- Watch this video to see how trams and associated measures deal with congestion in Zurich
- Websites for UK Tram organisations
- WETA West of England Transport Association
- What we need is some Keynesian thinking (how to pay for trams, amongst other things)
- Where does the money come from for building a tram in the UK?
- who benefits from trams and who should pay
- Why adding a tram to a line of traffic creates more road space than it takes up itself – Saltford example
- 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 is UK productivity so low compared to the continent?
- 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 was the very succesful Edinburgh tram system initially over cost and late?
- Why you get bus jam if you try to run a large city solely on buses only without trams
- Will pedestrianisation mean deserted streets and failed shopping?
- Wire free, no catenary, no overhead wire no overhead line, trams