tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16542790.post9209673503737887669..comments2024-03-28T10:05:36.756+00:00Comments on Crafty Green Poet: Trams for Edinburgh?Crafty Green Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486633917197181851noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16542790.post-46330620138984886562008-09-24T07:40:00.000+01:002008-09-24T07:40:00.000+01:00golebnik - I hope I'm wrong about the buses along ...golebnik - I hope I'm wrong about the buses along Princes Street, but its what I've heard from a number of sources. <BR/><BR/>Trams will encourage people out of their cars true, but these trams won't reach the areas where there is the greatest number of car users.Crafty Green Poethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02486633917197181851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16542790.post-54365130763161813122008-09-22T22:07:00.000+01:002008-09-22T22:07:00.000+01:00Very interesting to read your thoughts about the t...Very interesting to read your thoughts about the trams, with which I think I broadly agree. Is it really the case that no buses will run along Princes Street? I have to say I’d find that surprising.<BR/><BR/>I agree entirely that Edinburgh (unlike Seattle) is too compact, and the buses too good, to warrant the reintroduction of trams. Nevertheless, transport research always shows that there is a hard core of motorists who would never dream of getting on a bus, but who would use trams, so maybe they will reduce car journeys to some extent. Judging by the comments from rabid motorists below every vaguely tram-related article on the <A HREF="http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/" REL="nofollow">Evening News website</A>, though, somehow I doubt it!<BR/><BR/>One thing that I would add is that new tram schemes were in advanced stages of planning in several other UK cities, and all of them were stopped, on cost grounds, except for Edinburgh’s. At the time, the secretary of state for transport was Alistair Darling – MP for Edinburgh South West.<BR/><BR/>It would have been far better if the <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Corporation_Tramways" REL="nofollow">old tram lines</A> had not been ripped out …Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16542790.post-40010186484773530762008-09-22T03:23:00.000+01:002008-09-22T03:23:00.000+01:00Kind of a similar situation in Seattle ... some po...Kind of a similar situation in Seattle ... some politicians get an idea about light rail and then no amount of logic can sway them ... it more takes budget overruns and less than advertised service .. which happen regularly.<BR/><BR/>Hopefully they will see the light sooner rather than too late.RGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02017190779860810318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16542790.post-40150601870108601152008-09-22T00:13:00.000+01:002008-09-22T00:13:00.000+01:00Sounds like someone hasn't thought out this tram t...Sounds like someone hasn't thought out this tram thing very well. We have silly people who want to put a 3 story parking garage in the parking lot where the Farmer's Market is. This would, it is argued, encourage people to shop more down town and merchants would be happier.....but really parking is not the real problem.d. moll, l.ac.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16007607538375968631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16542790.post-22203628880557926802008-09-21T12:39:00.000+01:002008-09-21T12:39:00.000+01:00I could not agree more with every word of your pos...I could not agree more with every word of your post. I have yet to meet anyone who thinks that Edinburgh needs the trams, and most agree that it would have been more sensible to build a rail spur and station at the airport. Like yourself, I am n ot anti-trams, but in the right ebvironment, and Edinburgh is not the right environment...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com