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Posted by Rail Blue on Tue Jun 20 15:42:40 2006, in response to Re: Here comes Staten Is. Light Rail?, posted by Max Roberts on Tue Jun 20 11:53:05 2006. The Bury and Altrincham lines both ran every 15 minutes off-peak, so I wouldn't characterise these as being infrequent, no worse than many London Underground branches. They may or may not have been reliable, but street-running adds an extra variable to the equation.Especially when this "ten trams an hour" turns out to be theoretically spaced at 9 and 3 minute intervals. In practice, this means they've only got the benefit of 6tph, so not really much improvement. Certainly, the LRTA blames the cross-Newcastle tunnel for the "failure" of the Tyne & Wear Metro. Me? I blame urban motorways, competing express buses, and out-of-town stations that look as though they have been the site of nuclear war. Sounds more accurate. To this you can add: - ingrained petty municipal stupidity in terminating the line at the Airport (instead of continuing 1¾ miles further to Ponteland), resulting in all the buses from Ponteland still duplicating the entire route into Newcastle. |
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