NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 Same excuse as the railways leaves on the track..........................its autumn for gods sake. Heard they have also had to have engineers back over from France due to electrical problems. £700,000,000 of our money wasted. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 Re #78 : Well, the Bombardier ones have. Any idea whether the problems might have been with the new Alstom ones? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
barclaycon 569 Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 Leaves detaching themselves from trees, and rain falling onto the tracks. It seems their every move is hampered by freak conditions ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 4,983 Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 Landing in Boston, Mass, and needing to get into the city to our hotel, we caught the Silver Line. It was an articulated bus, on wheels. [didn't need to rip up the streets to put in rails!] We didn't need a ticket and the driver takes no money, it is free to get you from the airport to the city centre. As it approaches the city, it stops, and two poles automatically rise from its roof and connects to the overhead wires. The diesel engine then cuts out and it goes on it's journey to town, through concrete tunnels, with stations along the way. You can either go up to the outside or down to the subway system. It stops at every terminal around the airport. Going back to the airport, you need a $2.50 ticket [or use your 24hr ticket]. The tunnels are just underneath the roadway system and the subways are below that. A great system, we couldn't believe it was free out of the airport. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
barclaycon 569 Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 That's how 'rapid transit' should be. Not some hare-brained scheme to earn millions of pounds, but a means of transporting people into the city for a reasonable price. Brussels has a similar system in that the trams go underground and become part of the underground network - a well-thought 'integrated' transport scheme. In Amsterdam you are only 2 minutes from the station platform in the airport to connect with a train every 15 minutes to get you into the city for about 5 Euros. All fantastic systems that have one thing in common. They are reasonably priced, and they all seem to work efficiently. That's the way to welcome people into the city, not with some overpriced, inefficient system that can't run when there are leaves on the line. Katyjay. Just as a matter of interest I've just checked the price of Heathrow Express - the equivalent service to what you described at Boston. £21.50 !! Crap airport, 10 minute walk with your luggage to get to the train and then an overpriced journey to Paddington which isn't even the centre of town. Welcome to London ! 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,106 Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 To say that we invented the railway system, and were at the forefront of engineering during the Industrial Revolution, we seem to have come off the rails so to speak. Lack of investment, lack of knowledge, lack of forethought or just plain lackadaisical. The latter I fear. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 The problem is the attitude of councils etc. Ever since they started using the term 'local government' instead of 'public servants' its gone down hill, they know best don't you know. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,782 Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 Oh My Goodnight ! http://www.nottinghampost.com/Trams-delayed-car-track-Nottingham/story-28025499-detail/story.html 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJBrenton 738 Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 I wonder if he'll try and blame his satnav. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted October 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 Stupid **** Or drunk. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 233 Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 Both ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
meeowed 314 Posted December 17, 2015 Report Share Posted December 17, 2015 has anyone heard how much net paid the council for late delivery of the tram system it seems remarkably quiet Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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