tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post1335438036494389213..comments2024-03-28T22:32:50.562+00:00Comments on Liberal England: Leicester Conservatives fall out over promise of a tram systemJonathan Calderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-41329373871951171092018-04-26T11:40:16.133+01:002018-04-26T11:40:16.133+01:00I hope that the planners and engineers who worked ...I hope that the planners and engineers who worked on recent UK tram and light railway systems feel able to talk about their work honestly. All systems have displayed problems during installation -- I'd just like to understand how and why things work out.<br /><br />Ross Grant: “Within my ward I don’t see how you could run a tram track down Welford Road." But people have said exactly the same thing about bus lanes.<br /><br />A trickier consideration is that people in Leicester and the suburbs live and work in different places to the ones connected by wide main roads -- routes used by trams years ago. Nottingham's tram network shows an awful lot of hill dodging but it goes to places where homes have been built post-WWII; it doesn't try to replace bus routes. A Leicester tram network which reached Oadby, Wigston or Blaby would follow some strange routes.Phil Beesleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18442987962398498812noreply@blogger.com