| Topic: | Re:Time to reconsider the west london tram scheme | |
| Posted by: | Chris Veasey | |
| Date/Time: | 06/08/10 18:49:00 |
| Too bad you grew up in an old-fashioned tram city. I was fortunate enough to grow up in a far more progresssive and forward looking north-eastern city - Hull - which had wisely got rid of all its trams before my time in favour of trolleybuses - including by far the most modern trolleybuses (far ahead of their time) this country ever saw. And a world ahead of the rough, noisy bumpy trams I was able to compare them with in Leeds in the 1950s. I take it your 'midlands' home city wasn't Nottingham, Walsall or Wolverhampton, all of which also used trolleybuses. And if you really imagine trams on the largely on-street tramway would 'sail' past traffic on Uxbridge Road you are clearly away with the fairies on a rose-tinted nostalgia trip. At least trolleybuses can and would steer round obstructions such as badly parked, broken down or crashed vehicles which would bring street trams to a prolonged and helpless standstill. As for the 'noisy (sic) anti-tram brigade', the pro-tram brigade like you were at least as 'noisy'. |