| Topic: | Re:Re:Time to reconsider the west london tram scheme | |
| Posted by: | David Bradley | |
| Date/Time: | 10/08/10 16:18:00 |
| To state the obvious the world of 2010 is not that of 1901! What is more, LUT did not have to worry about the trams getting in the way of other vehicular traffic as there was very little of such at the time. The ever increasing problem of using one piece of roadway for a vehicle with a totally fixed path along with all other (ever increasing) vehicular traffic is of course what sounded the death knell for the first generation trams in the UK. And no there wasn't the level of objections to earlier tramway construction compared to the opposition to WLT. A mode of street public transport that performed explemary then for around 35 years doesn't mean that a modern version built today would do the same for the next four decades. |