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Trams are not the answer for mass public transport

Paul Withrington
02 October 2015
 

Andrew Braddock (LTT 4 Sep) says buses do not have the capacity of trains or trams. He is right if he is talking of a bus on a city street, subject to congestion, etc. However, the single contraflow lane serving the port authority’s coach bus terminal in New York is 11 feet wide and four miles long, including 1.5 miles in a tunnel. It offers 30,000 seats in the peak hour in 700, 45-seat coaches. 1,000 vehicles per hour travelling at 100kph would provide 100-metre headways. Given 75 seats...

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