| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Time to reconsider the west london tram scheme | |
| Posted by: | David Bradley | |
| Date/Time: | 10/08/10 19:22:00 |
| It is a matter of strict interpretation really. A tram sharing a road means being able to drive on the same piece of tarmac with your own vehicle which you can't do when its a tramway reservation at the side of the road or in the middle. In London in the 1950's, could you drive along the Embankment? Yes you could, but not on the tram reservation. Apart from a very short piece of roadway, Croydon Tramlink runs on its own private reservation. It is this exclusive use of right of way that maintains a good reliable service. Such exclusive use would have been very difficult, if not impossible, to achieve along the Uxbridge Road corridor yet time and time again in promoting WLT it was sold as the same as Croydon Tramlink; clearly it wasn't going to be like that at all, as extensively use of the same physical piece of roadway would have been necessary for both the tram and other road traffic. To maintain anything that was going to both swift a reliable was going to be an impossible dream. I get my facts right, you just distort them. I know Croydon in extreme detail and while you may well be a regular visitor to that area you have clearly failed to observe that for the most part Tramlink doesn't actually mix in with other road traffic. You are trying to give the impression that it does. |