On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 10:08:27 +0000 (GMT), David H Wild
wrote:

In article , David Bradley
wrote:
David Bradley

This site is an anti-tram site which instead promotes trolley buses.
However, I have never seen how, as far as a passenger is concerned, a
trolleybus can be any better than an ordinary bus. Trams have been
shown to solve transport problems in ways that buses can't. This is
because of their layout, being effectively a versatile train. A bus is
a bus is a bus, no matter what its power source.

Peter Fox


The site is not anti tram in general but regards the Uxbridge Road
corridor as being totally unsuitable for a tramway.

And it will regard any other road as "unsuitable" if someone proposes to
build a tramway there.

Everything has to be judged on its merits, but to get the very best out of a
tramway scheme, as much as possible of the network requires to be segregated
from other traffic. It is for this reason that that Croydon Tramlink works
well whereas the Manchester Eccles extension is very problematical and has
failed to deliver value for money.

David Bradley