On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 19:05:54 -0000, wrote:

David Bradley said:

On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 11:12:17 -0000, wrote:

David Bradley said


A trolleybus system does NOT need this destructive and largely
self-defeating road widening

But wouldn't the trolleybus STILL need road widening if it's to be
more than just another bendy-bus with added overhead power lines?

A false assumption.

Why? What's false about it? Speaking from congestion point of view,
what's going to magically stop this this trolleybus from being just
another bendy-bus with the novelty of overhead power lines? What's
going to make it solve traffic congestion better than all the other
bendy-buses out there?


Now maybe you just happen to like bendy-buses with overhead power
lines for their own sake? But experience seems to show that simply
sticking bendy buses onto already overcrowded roads doesn't reduce
congestion. I don't see how they're going to fix that problem by
just adding some ugly power lines to the bus.

40 metre long trains, TWICE the length of bendybuses, running along
Uxbridge Road is really going to make a difference for the better or
worse? Your call to explain that one away.

Trams running along the EXISTING Uxbridge Road would make things worse,
just as your electrical bendy-buses running along the existing Uxbridge
Road will make things worse.

Trams (or your electric bendy-buses, or whatever) running along the new,
improved WIDENED Uxbridge Road, won't because there will be more room
for them. That's why the road widening is the important thing, no
matter whether it's trams or trolleybuses that just happen to run in the
new lanes after they've been created.


My response to your posting would be tailored to whether you are in favour of
the tram or not. Which is it please?

David Bradley