| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Time to reconsider the west london tram scheme | |
| Posted by: | Alan Brainsby | |
| Date/Time: | 09/08/10 19:42:00 |
| Returning to the original thread the underlying problem isn't really whether it should be tram, trolleybus, motorbus, overhead monorail (like Wuppertal), but improving public transport services in frquency and reliability on Uxbridge Road route. There appear to be two practical (I'm not saying economic) options. One is to remove private vehicles, only allowing commercial and public service vehicles. The other is road-widening, at least from the right bank of the Brent at Hanwell through to Shepherd's Bush. Most of the properties that would be demolished are past their use-by date anyway. As regards the mode of transport most logical would be electric trolleybus, preferably energized by electricity generated by Norfolk Hydroelectric, or, if anyone came up with the idea, convict-hauled trams. |