On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:41:37 -0500, David Jackman
wrote:

"Bob" wrote in news:1158689984.356980.88880
:

Further to out thread of November last year
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5301366.stm

Is there any further detail ?- I still unsure as to whether this is the
first installment of the West London scheme - then heading via Holland
park and Shepherd's Bush to Uxbridge or a link to the Cross River
Scheme or both. It does however seem eminently sensible. What has been
the response of the taxi driving community?


The best question is "where is the depot?". Unless the plan is to dig up
Hyde Park (unlikely) an isolated Oxford Street tramway with steel wheeled
cars doesn't work.

Either run it as a 24 hour or near 24 hour service, with just a few
sidings here and there to drop a few cars out of service at night;
plus a ramp down to the Central Line, and trundle off to another ramp
up to the West London tram, and go to their depots once a week for a
major clean etc?

That, or maybe one of those very large university/medical buildings up
TCR way might fancy being rebuilt and could accomodate some sort of
fancy dual-level depot on the ground floor and basement?

But in seriousness you are right, if anything is a showstopper, the
lack of a depot space must be.