What should be done about Supertram (#1) - replace buses # 40, 42, 94, 95, 120

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Congratulations for cycling illegally...

[JoeyDPro2009]

Escalators and lifts down to the station? that would be impossible to comission and escalator of such length from your proposed station site and also you'll have to cancel that idea because construction for walkways is underway.

[BUSFLIX]

would be watchable without the "music" or noise or whatever, just gave up.

[Foxydebs2611]

where would the money come from to do this though.

[bwhugul]

@Foxydebs2611 Agreed - very problematic to do this at the moment.

The one major thing that would reduce costs is using different means of building in the track. There are two methods: "Carpet" and "LR55"

LR55 has an advantage over Carpet in that it would not need the whole road surface to be dug up - just the bits where the rails go. But there are no points for it yet.

[JoeyDPro2009]

@bwhugul and another thing, it would not be actually necessary because tram stock would have to say which route it would take and it might confuse commuters and also it would not form a bus replacement, it would form a tram loop

[bwhugul]

@Foxydebs2611 For the carpet track and LR55 websites

parry (space) people (space) movers dot (com) (forward slash) holdfast (underscore) tramway (space) track dot (htm)

lr55 (dash) rail (dash) road (dash) system dot (co) dot (uk)

[bwhugul]

@Foxydebs2611 The reason for my funny typing arrangement is that it won't let me post links or even have things including a tiny bit of words like com. The brackets helped fool it though!!!!!

Carpet is what it says - the bits in between the rails are rubber, and often coloured green. The utilities don't need diverting though.

Neither Carpet or LR55 have been put into service anywhere. But the only places where conventional track would be required are Spring Lane and at Manor Top/Elm Tree.

[InterCity82]

Excellent video! Cheers for posting me the link on Facebook. The route you took on bike seemed totally perfect for a supertram route - you need to be on the council!