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  • Solving Bath’s Traffic
    • Atkins Bath Trams Report Jan 2018
    • Shorter Journey Times
    • TIG/m track costs Potential Bath Tram Maps and Rates of Return and how trams address the rural commuters
    • Trams do not have to be as expensive as recent British examples
    • Letter from a Bathonian – how trams really are different to buses
    • BATH TRAMS – CAN THEY FLY?
    • Trams are cheaper per passenger km than buses in the right circumstances
    • Trams have a much higher carrying capacity than buses or cars
    • City Trams Improve & Preserve Rural Bus Services
    • Details of LR55 tram track
    • Trams – the solution to Bath’s traffic
  • Trams in Other Cities
    • History of trams, light rail
    • Bath Horse Trams
    • Trams in Bath – 1904 – 1939
    • Midland Metro (PDF)
    • 46 tram systems since 2000
    • List of 26 WHS’s with Trams
    • List of 131 systems worldwide
  • Trams Pros
    • Trams vs. Buses in Towns
    • Trams Reduce HGVs
    • Dining Around The Tram Line – Kassel
    • Trams Cheaper to Run Than Buses Overall
    • 9 Tram Rate of Return May Be Sufficient for Private Capital According to Prof Lesley’s analysis.
    • Evidence Car Drivers will switch to Trams & not Buses – USA, UK Germany
    • Survey of car drivers negative attitudes towards buses
    • Trams can get through traffic faster than buses or cars without lane segregation due to green wave traffic light pre-emption / dynamic tram priority signalization
    • Trams Can Reduce HGVs Entering Bath
    • Tram Car Restaurant Dining and Eating as a tourist attraction
    • Modern Tram Operations Won’t Damage Vaults & Cellars
    • Why trams solve traffic congestion – but buses don’t!
  • Trams Cons
    • Impact on bicycles/cycling – danger to cyclists / risk of getting stuck in tram tracks
  • News
    • CONFERENCE: 24TH November 2018 Bath
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  • History of Trams
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    • History of trams closed, removal, withdrawal, closure, shut-down, in Bath and other British cities?
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Websites for UK Tram organisations

April 18, 2019 / Dave / News

UK Parliamentary Light Rail Group – https://www.applrguk.co.uk/

 

List of new trams under development – https://www.applrguk.co.uk/Tram-Tracker-Project

 

The campaigning arm of the LRTA – Light Rail Transit Association – http://www.lrta.org/TramForward/index.php

 

The official voice of the UK Tram industry – https://uktram.com/

 

Technical standards et – https://uktram.com/documents/

 

General facts about existing trams – https://www.thetrams.co.uk/tramsinuk.php

 

Light Rail Transit Association – http://www.lrta.org/

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