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Date: 2020-04-24
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David
Me again. just had a thought. What if the tram line is arterial through the city to the airport for example. Tram stops were to become local bus shuttle termini serving destinations like housing estates and employment areas around each tram stop! This would save money, fuel, wear and tear on the buses etc And getting a lot of traffic out of the city by integrating tram and bus usage intelligently and saving buses duplicating the tram routes where possible. And introduce common ticketing like the Dutch strip card or london oyster card system for example. Hope some of this makes sense! Almost forgot, Park and ride trams are popular in europe too!
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Me again. just had a thought. What if the tram line is arterial through the city to the airport for example. Tram stops were to become local bus shuttle termini serving destinations like housing estates and employment areas around each tram stop! This would save money, fuel, wear and tear on the buses etc And getting a lot of traffic out of the city by integrating tram and bus usage intelligently and saving buses duplicating the tram routes where possible. And introduce common ticketing like the Dutch strip card or london oyster card system for example. Hope some of this makes sense! Almost forgot, Park and ride trams are popular in europe too!
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darthgardner
Not convinced its any quicker than taking the airbus from waverley bridge to the airport, that has a journey time on average of 30 mins with various stops, i see most of this tram network being built as i have gone up to Edinburgh, my first thoughts were they have trams buses taxis and cars all sharing the same roads at some points on its journey to the airport, in otherwords just as slow as them. many times i thought about taking the tram, but i just stick to the airbus, this tram network does not seem to benefit in some ways.
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Not convinced its any quicker than taking the airbus from waverley bridge to the airport, that has a journey time on average of 30 mins with various stops, i see most of this tram network being built as i have gone up to Edinburgh, my first thoughts were they have trams buses taxis and cars all sharing the same roads at some points on its journey to the airport, in otherwords just as slow as them. many times i thought about taking the tram, but i just stick to the airbus, this tram network does not seem to benefit in some ways.
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MV
I really enjoyed your video, but I must say that low floor trams with fixed bogies are quite an ineffective engineering solution. Not only it crawls like a turtle within the city, but it also has to slow down at each and every curve, and even then, you experience a rather unpleasant lateral jerk. Also, it squeaks a lot in tight turns. Maintenance costs must be high. In Russia, for example, even in small cities with much worse track condition trams are much faster, though absolutely not as beautiful as yours)
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I really enjoyed your video, but I must say that low floor trams with fixed bogies are quite an ineffective engineering solution. Not only it crawls like a turtle within the city, but it also has to slow down at each and every curve, and even then, you experience a rather unpleasant lateral jerk. Also, it squeaks a lot in tight turns. Maintenance costs must be high. In Russia, for example, even in small cities with much worse track condition trams are much faster, though absolutely not as beautiful as yours)
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David
All the pocket experts going on about using buses instead, forget one wee detail. Trams are ELECTRIC and therefore clean, dont use expensive dirty diesel and could be powered by wind farms if it came to it. AND they'r a lot comfier than buses. Ask Manchester, The Dutch and all the other countries who love their trams. More Brit cities should follow their example. And i thought we Scots were a smart forward thinking inventive bunch. Sad!
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All the pocket experts going on about using buses instead, forget one wee detail. Trams are ELECTRIC and therefore clean, dont use expensive dirty diesel and could be powered by wind farms if it came to it. AND they'r a lot comfier than buses. Ask Manchester, The Dutch and all the other countries who love their trams. More Brit cities should follow their example. And i thought we Scots were a smart forward thinking inventive bunch. Sad!
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Ally
I know it s 2 years late but I hope you could answer these, what do you have to do in order to ride in the cab, have you ever been unable to for whatever reason, are you standing in person or can you leave your camera in the cab for the journey, are there rules you have to follow whilst in the cab? I would really appreciate if you were able to answer this
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I know it s 2 years late but I hope you could answer these, what do you have to do in order to ride in the cab, have you ever been unable to for whatever reason, are you standing in person or can you leave your camera in the cab for the journey, are there rules you have to follow whilst in the cab? I would really appreciate if you were able to answer this
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Edmund
Good that at about 12: 50, driver could retain track speed when passing over a crossover. Not the case in world's largest tram network (Melbourne, Australia) on our popular route 96 light rail in its reserved track section that was once a broad gauge rail line to St Kilda. Also excellent to observe Edinburgh retaining so many Victorian era buildings.
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Good that at about 12: 50, driver could retain track speed when passing over a crossover. Not the case in world's largest tram network (Melbourne, Australia) on our popular route 96 light rail in its reserved track section that was once a broad gauge rail line to St Kilda. Also excellent to observe Edinburgh retaining so many Victorian era buildings.
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Derrick
I like how the driver sounded the bell and waved to the little boy with the rucksack! Thanks for loading. I remember it standing on display in Princes Street when we were on holiday in beautiful Edinburgh before the track was down or catenary set up. We were allowed on board to look round. BTW, Avoid Cafe Rouge!
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I like how the driver sounded the bell and waved to the little boy with the rucksack! Thanks for loading. I remember it standing on display in Princes Street when we were on holiday in beautiful Edinburgh before the track was down or catenary set up. We were allowed on board to look round. BTW, Avoid Cafe Rouge!
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Chris
Why was hardly anyone using it? Was it filmed at 6 o'clock on a Sunday morning? Once outside the city there isn't much around, but why no airport passengers? It had been open about 3 years when this was filmed, so presumably not because people didn't know about it. Apart from the airport, is it a road to nowhere?
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Why was hardly anyone using it? Was it filmed at 6 o'clock on a Sunday morning? Once outside the city there isn't much around, but why no airport passengers? It had been open about 3 years when this was filmed, so presumably not because people didn't know about it. Apart from the airport, is it a road to nowhere?
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Edmund
Also very interesting to see in excess of four track treatments. I assume that the mass concrete laid between each track is to allow passengers and the driver to walk more eaily along it in the event of a breakdown or other non-timetabled event?
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Also very interesting to see in excess of four track treatments. I assume that the mass concrete laid between each track is to allow passengers and the driver to walk more eaily along it in the event of a breakdown or other non-timetabled event?
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