Why is light rail still in the sidings? The case for trams
Posted: 22 Mar 2020, 07:31
Why is light rail still in the sidings? The case for trams
Letting trams disappear from our city streets was a terrible error. Failing to build new schemes compounds the mistake. Trams fit neatly between buses and metro systems or conventional railways...
In the UK, in almost every city where tram systems have been built, usage has massively exceeded original forecasts...
We might usefully look across the Channel to mainland Europe where light rail schemes abound...