PG
Established Member
I doubt it - this is Edinburgh Council we're talking about.
They've given priority to the trams at every single junction, regardless of where the lights are in the sequence at that point, and as such it totally knackers the traffic flow every time one passes.
It's the same out at the Gyle, where I sat for five minutes* at this junction as two trams passed.
If the trams were given the same priority as everything else is, it would work fine, but because they don't want their little vanity train set getting stuck in traffic (which it will regardless) they've given them absolute priorty, and bollocks to everyone else. :roll:
*Seriously. I was a minute late when I got to the lights, which were already red, and six minutes late when they finally changed to green after the two trams had passed.
Do the emergency services get to override the trams absolute priority when they're on blues n twos or are they treated like heavy rail ie everything no matter what stops while the train/tram passes?
Either way sounds like any journey in Edinburgh will take longer now. :roll: