Opposition to the West London Tram steps up
 

Is there a website, not run by either TfL or this pressure-group, that
gives a balanced list of the pros and cons of this and other projects?

Looking at everything - cost, disruption, environment, etc.?

I think when the congestion zone in West London comes into force next
month, people will be delighted with another zippy way to get around town
that doesn't involve paying £8, and the opposition will quickly dissipate.

Opposition to the West London Tram steps up
 

Tristán White wrote:
Is there a website, not run by either TfL or this pressure-group, that
gives a balanced list of the pros and cons of this and other projects?

Looking at everything - cost, disruption, environment, etc.?

I think when the congestion zone in West London comes into force next
month, people will be delighted with another zippy way to get around town
that doesn't involve paying £8, and the opposition will quickly dissipate.

Unlikely. The tram route stops just outside the extended charging zone,
and it's more likely that people will just be resentful of both schemes
(C-charge extension and the tram).

I'm not aware of any particularly balanced websites explicitly listing
pros and cons. It's probably quite difficult to do so too, as now that
most of the road closures have been dropped, the main point of
contention has switched to traffic modelling and whether a lot of
traffic will rat run or not - the problem being that because TfL do the
modelling, the opposition automatically distrusts the results if they
don't say what they want them to say.

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Dave Arquati
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London

Opposition to the West London Tram steps up
 

In article ,
(Tim Roll-Pickering) wrote:

martyn dawe wrote:

The trouble with the English, is that they all think of trams as
something out a 50s film, They don't go to places which have
modern tram systems ?

You mean like Croydon?

Exactly so. I was brought up in Putney but almost never went to Croydon.

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Colin Rosenstiel