So these performance stats, how do they chime with my not-at-all-objective observations that any time I see a tram its hardly got anybody on it?
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Posted 7 years ago #
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Selective perception?
During the day the tram isn't goiong to be full to capacity. During the rush-hour it is pretty busy with folk.Posted 7 years ago # -
Tram tonight, got on 7pm at the airport
Probably about a dozen of us (and we're worth 3 normal passengers in revenue)
No seats left with personal space after Balgreen, though there were a few if you needed to sit down. Quite a number standing.
Usual tail off Haymarket onwards. 12 of us from the same tram crossed to Picardy Pl from the York Place stop - I could count because of the long wait at the lights to cross.
It seemed to me it had very healthy levels of patronage for an off peak journey. Princes St is the end of the line - it's a bad shop window for onlookers who are trying to see 'if it's busy' - you're far better observing at Haymarket Yards and Bankhead
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For about six months a couple of years ago, I got the tram home from work, travelling from Saughton to Haymarket. I don't think I ever got a seat in the evening rush hour.
I think the frequency has doubled since then so individual trams may be quieter but the numbers carried greater.
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Only time I ever get a seat on the drat thing is the last tram home from the pub.
Posted 7 years ago # -
On a tram just told Bikes have to face in the direction of travel on the tram not the side but front pointing in direction of travel which ever side bike on. No hardship but did wonder why?
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No hardship but did wonder why?
Having them parallel with the tram makes sense I suppose, so that you're less likely to block anybody.
Facing the front rather than the back? Not a clue.
Posted 7 years ago # -
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T2 director Danny Boyle has claimed Edinburgh council chiefs begged him to include the trams in the Trainspotting sequel.
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@chdot - I think Mr Boyle was joking.
Posted 7 years ago # -
It's all PR.
(Or AltNews)
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The tram in T2 is a convenient and effective device to tell the audience that Edinburgh has changed in the time Renton has been away. I suspect Danny Boyle was smart enough to work that out on his own. ;-)
Posted 7 years ago # -
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DEVELOPERS behind proposals to regenerate Granton with a marina, 2000 homes and a hotel have been told to amend the plans because of a potential conflict with the tram extension.
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AN e-mail which is set to be a key piece of evidence at the inquiry into Edinburgh’s tram fiasco suggests council officials may have kept politicians in the dark at the height of the controversy over the project.
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Posted 7 years ago # -
The tram stop location at the airport makes a lot more sense to me now, the master plan for the next 15 years is a shift in the 'middle' of the airport to where the new security hall is with international arrivals moving to beside domestic baggage reclaim - there is already a temporary immigration hall in place.
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There's a house beside the Pinkhill path near the tram stop which for years had has an old Lothian Buses sign on its shed. Tonight I noticed that there is now another shed/summer house built to look like a tram in the back garden. Made me smile anyway.
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A forgotten former tram depot for Edinburgh’s original tram system in Edinburgh is to be knocked down and replaced with old shipping containers for artists to work in.
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EXTENDING the Capital’s tram route will only go ahead if conditions are met, the SNP warns in its council election manifesto launched today.
The party says it will not progress the plans to take the line down Leith Walk and on to Newhaven without an assurance the project will be properly managed, disruption will be kept to an absolute minimum and small and independent businesses will be supported throughout the works.
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Is "disruption kept to an absolute minimum" code for "don't close the roads"?
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I see they have now changed the headline to
SNP sets conditions for giving OK to tram extensionPosted 7 years ago # -
How refreshing that a party fighting the local elections does so on local issues.
The tories seem to be turning it into a pre-referendum anti-referendum vote .... where's their 'mandate' to do that?
Maybe @RuthDavidsonMSP could explain ... but she's (REMARKABLY!) gone on radio silence just now. Who'd ever have thought that could happen? Wonder why ... has the Tory Branch Office been told to keep schtum about national matters, for fear of her losing her "politician of the year" (based on one, negative, policy) title?
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Manchester Metrolink tram network halted by systems failure
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Posted 7 years ago # -
Anyone monitoring the cracks and joint seals sunken/failed on the track slabs between Haymarket and Waverley Bridge (and the serious sinking of valve chamber covers where the Mound traffic crosses Princes Street (westbound carriageway) position likely to cause serious loss of control if you hit at any speed.
In particular there are 20cm wide strips where a crack opens across the slab and then chunks of concrete have come out, or the tarmac sinks to leave a serious ridge (6mm is limit - more than that will cause serious loss of control if you clip it at an angle)
One critical area with cracks and repairs is turn into St David Street. Hole is potentially in line with path one might take around the corner.
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4157/34426729476_d3506320e5_c.jpg (Cracked & patched - missing concrete too)
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4169/33658185103_0e9ca92134_b.jpg (sunken edge abutting track slab)
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4187/33658183203_f8b0dcc015_b.jpg (St David St junction crack with missing concrete & tarmac patch, & hole/ridge at side of slab also)
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4162/33658180683_2637da35f6_b.jpg (the road and manholes abutting the track slab keep sinking and than have to be repaired/patched)
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4169/34426730676_d2ec86da3f_c.jpg (one of several cracked 'strips' at Haymarket with missing bits of concrete)
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3724/32809526244_44094a8762_c.jpg (Another one - not a joint on Shandwick Place)
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/598/32809534084_a726f27ff8_c.jpg (This was repaired less than 6 months earlier - and now its sinking again (W Maitland St/Atholl Place))
Posted 7 years ago # -
There were some overnight closures of Princes Street scheduled recently, apparently for work on the tram tracks - related?
Posted 7 years ago # -
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the Evening News understands Scottish ministers have vetoed using any of the cash for a tram extension.
Councillors are due to decide soon on whether to go ahead with an extension down Leith Walk and on to Newhaven, last estimated at £162 million.
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Posted 7 years ago # -
chdot - I particularly like this quote from the Tory group leader:
"The Edinburgh public would not forgive us if they saw us throw money at something on the basis it would make the route profitable in the long-term. It has to make sense in terms of the capital costs."
Bonkers!
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"It has to make sense in terms of the capital costs"
How does that work??
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