Ah - a full size folding hybrid!
Forget about them...
As far as tram is concerned key word is "bagged".
Anyone want to try full size non-folding hybrid (and a big bag)?
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the parade from the top of the Mound to the West End of Princes Street is an ambitious addition to this year’s programme. Princes Street will be closed to all traffic for the half-hour parade
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http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/festival-carnival-procession-for-princes-street-1-3455824
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Edinburgh's tram fiasco has lessons for other UK transport projects
The city has a new tram line, but it's arrived £375m over budget and probably won't help ease transport problems
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Cities that use trams also need to be serious about reducing car traffic and increasing the number of journeys made on foot or through other modes of public transport.
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A lower number of people in cars is thanks to sustained public policies over many years promoting alternative travel such as walking or cycling. To promote other modes of transport city planners need to provide good experiences for, say, cyclists. This requires policies that resist urban sprawl, promote building houses near to public transport links and put high-quality cycling infrastructure in place.
John Whitelegg is a member of the Stockholm Environment Institute, and is visiting professor of sustainable transport at Liverpool John Moores University.
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Chap two up from me at work takes tram now to work loves it.
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Instead of bus, bike or car?
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Car bus bus car as tommy cooper said
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So one less car every other day?
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No two less busses every day. He drives to ingilston now instead of hermiston. And is conveyed as a prince rather than a knave.
So being frank, we are no further forward but I found him out cycling the other night
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"we are no further forward"
And no extra income for Edinburgh's public transport operator. (And still free parking.)
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Yes but my colleague has a very much more enjoyable journey to work and is nicer and more productive as a result, innit
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There was a random nutter shouting "youse are all a disgrace to Edinburgh" and other abuse at the people in the tram queue at York Place today.
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^ You should have asked him for his EEN username
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Took my mum on tram today using a family bus ticket as she is Ayrshire/Renfrewshire granny. She loved it. My youngest also keen but my middle child says he prefers bus acceleration deceleration to tram smoothness. No pleasing some folk.
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Took the tram for the first time last week. Headlines for me;
* Ticket machine needlessly complex
* Guy in front of me had no change and couldn't use card for a single - I gave him £1.50
* Tram just like the Manchester ones; big, clean and smooth
* Tram slower than expected
* Everyone cheerful and chatty - totally unlike bus
* I think I'd still have prefered to use the X12 if it hadn't been vastly reducedPosted 9 years ago # -
Tried it out between York Place and the Gyle a week ago. The size of the stops is more allowing for a four-year-old than a bus stop would have been. Although it seemed reasonably obvious to me that a pram ought to be loaded through one of the doors marked with the accessibility symbol this was apparently not obvious to the pram's operator, though the conductor was quick to pounce and advise. Sideways-pointing seats were available for people whose knees usually bother the seat in front of them. The greater view-occlusion of the side pillars in some seats and the absence of an equivalent of the top-deck-front-seat could be considered a disadvantage. My parents were surprised to learn that their codgerpasses allowed them all the way to the airport, so my revised plan was therefore to go as far as Ingliston and then let them take the 4-y.o. the remainder of the way to the airport and back but everyone else had decided we were getting out at the Gyle. On the way back we caught the beginning of commuter home-time but it was still much less muggy and stuffy than an equivalent bus would have been on such a sunny day and multiple doors remove the contention between strap-hangers and people who want to get out at busy stops.
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I think people are learning how to love the trams. Take a bus first buy day saver using the now acceptable correct change only format from cheery driver. Keep hold of ticket go on tram avoiding overly complicated ticket machine. Tram carnet may follow? With whopping fine for not noting your current journey like on continent or are we a nation of fare dodgers?
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Long-time tram critic Grant McKeeman, of Copymade, whose West Maitland Street shop sits directly beside the line, said: “blah, blah, blah, whinge, whinge, trams, blah, blah, shopatcopymade."
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"Last month we told how the tram public address system at the Saughton stop was to be placed under curfew after residents complained the regular announcements could be heard 200 years away"
So that's why all the problems with the trams project - Saughton residents of 2214 must have sent back a Terminator to try to disrupt it so they could get some peace and quiet. Perhaps it's taken the form of Grant McKeeman. The mission continues.Posted 9 years ago # -
@Colonies_Chris
T|N>K
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@IWRATS
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@colonies_chris T|N>K =‘Tea through Nose to Keyboard’
Same as at the end of Zulu,"they're saluting you".
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Funny, when I was on the trams (a week after they started), I wondered if the beeping when the doors were open would irritate locals.
Maybe that's a problem to come?
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Edinburgh Trams (@EdinburghTrams)
04/07/2014 15:39
Welcome aboard to @Ed_Miliband - hope you enjoy your tram journey :)"
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Edinburgh Trams (@EdinburghTrams)
04/07/2014 19:07
Trams running from Airport to Shandwick Place only while Princes Street closure remains in place."
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Beats "leaves on the line"!
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A small boy with a pin could have sorted that lot out in no time.
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Don't remember seeing this one from the weekend before.
http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/tram-damaged-in-crash-in-edinburgh-s-west-end-1-3475058
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