In message , at 09:53:42 on Fri,
17 Dec 2004, John Rowland
remarked:
It was originally proposed that the tramline would be inside the barriers.
This was scrapped because of the high frequency of the trams.

There's about one every 8 minutes - hardly "high" frequency. But as I
said, there are no barriers at any of the other hundred or so places
that the tram intersects a road, so why would this one be special?
--
Roland Perry