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In article ,
The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article
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harry wrote:
In the future, motoring will once again be the province of the
wealthy.
The herbs will be on the buses/trains.

What fuel will buses/trains use that will be cheaper than that for a
car?

nuclear electricity of course.

Trolley busses.

Yes, in fact does anyone know why places like Manchester, Edinburgh,
are putting in trams at ruinous expense instead of electric trolley
busses? Apart from the willy-waving factor, that is.

Trams make traffic jams. A waste of time in many cases. Manchester try
to pass off Metrolink as rapid-transit. What a joke! Rapid transit has
to be grade segregated.

for 95% of the route it is

Rapid it is not.

well that's relative isn't it.

The term is "rapid-transit", where in its basic form transit means Public
Transport.

Compared with the bus Metrolink IS rapid

tim