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Post by busaholic on Feb 18, 2020 0:14:08 GMT
Appalling decision, option 1 offers the best and most cost effective implementation of a tramline. My local MP will be getting a letter with my concerns as I am completely opposed to trams thundering past my windows until gone midnight. So, they're going to install tram lines on EXISTING roads? Have they forgotten the chaos in Croydon Town Centre?  How is a tram any more efficient than an electric bus??!! I seriously doubt TfL will have the money to implement this, but another option would have been to run modern trolleybuses as are being introduced in other countries i.e. with sufficient battery back-up to run 'off line' for considerable distances, so you wouldn't have to construct overhead everywhere. And, yes, I do remember the chaos in Croydon, although at least the trams have done as well, if not better, than expected since their introduction, even if the takings don't perhaps paint a full picture.  |
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Post by richard on Feb 18, 2020 1:54:04 GMT
Appalling decision, option 1 offers the best and most cost effective implementation of a tramline. My local MP will be getting a letter with my concerns as I am completely opposed to trams thundering past my windows until gone midnight. So, they're going to install tram lines on EXISTING roads? Have they forgotten the chaos in Croydon Town Centre? How is a tram any more efficient than an electric bus??!! What about Red Ken's idea of a cross London tram? That was ultimately shelved buy Mr Johnson wich I belive was going to use former LT tram lines including the KIngsway underpass? |
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Post by vjaska on Feb 18, 2020 3:34:10 GMT
So, they're going to install tram lines on EXISTING roads? Have they forgotten the chaos in Croydon Town Centre? How is a tram any more efficient than an electric bus??!! What about Red Ken's idea of a cross London tram? That was ultimately shelved buy Mr Johnson wich I belive was going to use former LT tram lines including the KIngsway underpass? Awful idea - the proposal was to terminate in Brixton and not only use a busy section of the A23 in the town centre but also use a road that is occupied by a lovely market with many cultural food stalls and run past what is now Pop Up Brixton as well as right past the police station which would of interfered with police cars entering & leaving. Thank goodness it was shelved. |
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Post by M1104 on Feb 18, 2020 13:21:46 GMT
So, they're going to install tram lines on EXISTING roads? Have they forgotten the chaos in Croydon Town Centre? How is a tram any more efficient than an electric bus??!! Yep, they are gonna make the already busy Rose Hill into Sutton High Street even busier. I don’t know how they are gonna do it. It’s stupid and a massive wast of resources. Frankly it would be better and cheaper to upgrade the existing Thameslink line and install a new junction in Wimbledon so trams could all the way from Sutton to Croydon via Merton Road. It would be quicker and far less disruptive. I’m holding out hope that tfl won’t have the funding for it. I would have alternatively loved the District Line to have been extended to Sutton, though i would've actually prefered the Northern Line on that as was originally intended. |
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Post by Green Kitten on Feb 18, 2020 16:47:29 GMT
Yep, they are gonna make the already busy Rose Hill into Sutton High Street even busier. I don’t know how they are gonna do it. It’s stupid and a massive wast of resources. Frankly it would be better and cheaper to upgrade the existing Thameslink line and install a new junction in Wimbledon so trams could all the way from Sutton to Croydon via Merton Road. It would be quicker and far less disruptive. I’m holding out hope that tfl won’t have the funding for it. I would have alternatively loved the District Line to have been extended to Sutton, though i would've actually prefered the Northern Line on that as was originally intended. Can’t imagine how busy that stretch of tube would be today if the Northern line went to Sutton! 🙀🙀 |
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Post by M1104 on Feb 18, 2020 16:51:42 GMT
I would have alternatively loved the District Line to have been extended to Sutton, though i would've actually prefered the Northern Line on that as was originally intended. Can’t imagine how busy that stretch of tube would be today if the Northern line went to Sutton! 🙀🙀 I imagine the frequency would have then been adjusted to match, especially with it being crowded enough during the peaks from Morden |
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