• TfL’s latest railway improvements: Trains, signalling, and station upgrades detailed (Ian Visits)
• Blackpool’s first new tram extension in 98 years opens (Mainspring)
• HS2: Progress on a grand scale (Rail Engineer)
• London Underground hosts tests for ‘quantum compass’ that could replace GPS (The Guardian)
• Work Paused On Second Avenue Subway Extension After Congestion Pricing Pause (Streetsblog)
• Baselines are Very Important for Evaluating Transit, esp for Media (Reece Martin)
• Hong Kong’s MTR is Enviable: Video (BuildingBeautifully)
• Cheap, Easy, Good: We Need to Think Like Amazon to Decarbonize Transportation (NextCity)
- Industry News – updated every business day
- Webinars and Online Conferences
The cost of the Blackpool tramway
“the cost of the 0.4-mile (600m) tramway is about £23.42M”
Does it go at 200mph ?
“The cost of the Blackpool tramway”
Yeah, 600m still leaving 150m walk to the station, with no provision for further extension, and all to provide a measly 2 trams per hour in each direction.
Might as well not have bothered