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The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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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 wagon train is only as fast as the slowest wagon. The 5% choke spot
means the services is poor.

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

There is a big difference between transit and rapid-transit. Merseyrail is
rapid-transit, Metrolink is not. Manchester wanted an underground but could
not afford it, so went for trams. Some parts of Metrolink are fine where it
uses old rail lines and stations. Once off the fast segratgated lines it
slows up on the streets, even on segregated track.




Compared with the bus Metrolink IS rapid

tim