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daodao
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Doncaster Sheffield Airport to reopen?
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Doncaster airport was late to the game, which is one key reason why it failed financially. If one was planning the siting of English...
24 Mar 2024
daodao
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"HS2 Back on Track" - front page of Sunday Express - private sector plan to build Birmingham to Manchester
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Comparing the demand for public transport to travel into London and Manchester city centres is like comparing chalk and cheese. If...
22 Mar 2024
daodao
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TfGM Tranche 3 speculation
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The Singapore-based company Comfortdelgro does seem to be a likely contender; I used their route C1 in Cardiff last year and was...
22 Mar 2024
daodao
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"HS2 Back on Track" - front page of Sunday Express - private sector plan to build Birmingham to Manchester
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Any new heavy rail route from Ringway/Hale Barns to Manchester city centre would be extremely expensive to construct. Unless it was...
22 Mar 2024
daodao
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"HS2 Back on Track" - front page of Sunday Express - private sector plan to build Birmingham to Manchester
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This is the section of HS2 which really shouldn't have been cancelled, and which is necessary to provide adequate relief for the WCML...
21 Mar 2024
daodao
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Metrolink tram extensions
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Metrolink expansion should focus on enhancing public transport services to more deprived areas of Greater Manchester, not affluent areas...
18 Mar 2024
daodao
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Metrolink tram extensions
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What is the benefit of tram-train services to Hale? I can only see downsides. Hale station's catchment is severely limited by its...
18 Mar 2024
daodao
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Metrolink tram extensions
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There is a direct tram from Benchill to the Barlow Moor Road stop, which is closer to many parts of Southern Cemetery than Princess...
17 Mar 2024
daodao
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Metrolink tram extensions
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All true, but there are new factors now compared to 60+ years ago: bus services are much diminished bus services are handicapped by...
17 Mar 2024
daodao
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Metrolink tram extensions
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Extending Metrolink to serve towns in Greater Manchester such as Heywood and Middleton that lost their rail links in the 1960s...
17 Mar 2024
daodao
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Metrolink tram extensions
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The idea that Hale can be the terminus of even a 5 tph tram-train service is daft. There is nowhere to terminate services there without...
16 Mar 2024
daodao
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Metrolink tram extensions
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Surely the priority should be to convert existing poorly used suburban heavy rail lines to Metrolink and replace 1-2 tph low quality dmu...
16 Mar 2024
daodao
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Reopening to Padstow would generate more traffic than reopening Tavistock-Okehampton
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Wadebridge is a larger place than Padstow, so bypassing it would be daft; Bodmin is even larger. Padstow's population is also...
16 Mar 2024
daodao
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Reopening to Padstow would generate more traffic than reopening Tavistock-Okehampton
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One could route the tram-train from Bodmin Road (Parkway) to Bodmin General, then on street to the site of the former Bodmin North...
15 Mar 2024
daodao
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Reopening to Padstow would generate more traffic than reopening Tavistock-Okehampton
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Reopening to Padstow would generate more traffic than reopening Tavistock-Okehampton; the frequency of the bus service from Bodmin Road...
15 Mar 2024
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