Why not use old train lines instead of tram?
THE destruction of the old trees on University Boulevard is another sad loss to our heritage.
Our planners seem to have tunnel vision, in my view, and can see no alternatives other than wrecking anything in their way.
Obviously, the reason for this desecration is the proposed tram route, which was ill-thought out from the beginning.
The council spent thousands of pounds on the drawing up of the plans for this unwanted project.
Yet we already have a train line running just yards from University Boulevard.
It starts in the city, then to Lenton Junction, onwards past the University Business Park and the Boots factory to Attenborough Station and beyond.
Beeston Station is easy accessed by car or existing public transport.
An advantage to using this line as an alternative to the one proposed is that the branch line from Lenton Junction provides a direct link to the existing line from Hucknall.
This branch goes directly through "student bedsit land", and past the university's Jubilee Campus. I would urge everyone to consider this route, there would be no need to demolish property or anything else. The bonus is the relatively low cost both financially and environmentally.
TERRY BLOUNT Staverton Road Bilborough
IT has been pointed out that the £51 million cost per day of being in the EU is only £1 for 51 million people.
But to work out the true cost per person, since Britain joined the EU, one has to go back 40 years to when Britain was applying to join the EEC (the Common Market).
Every cost has to be taken into account including laws, directives etc.
When this has been done, one realises the cost per person is great, whereas the benefits are almost nil.
A J ASKEW Waveney Close
Arnold
HOW annoying these faceless automated phone lines are.
People phoning me were unable to hear me. I phoned BT who tested and said "phone OK", but it wasn't.
My son had to come to the rescue and sort the problem out. With a phone with no sound and the fact I was unable to find an address on their bills, how would I have been able to get help?
JOSE P LLOYD Elms Park
Ruddington
4 Comments
by davidnwright
Friday, March 09 2012, 4:44PM
“Yes Crlton,
The tram to Beeston, already served by 40 buses an hour, seems to make a point of avoiding most centres of population in the surrounding area. I know we are getting it so we can tick boxes. I have worked in a German city with fully aligned transport system. The only bit that was an anachronism and wasn't getting expanded was the tram. Its existing lines are 50 years old, but have been found too inflexible to meet the changing requirements of business, shopping and living areas.”
by bosephus
Saturday, February 11 2012, 4:14PM
“Terry Blount clealry hasn't tried to reach Beeston Station by public transport. Nor tried to park there. There is very limited all-day parking (charge applies) and on street parking is imited by time.
Add that to the fact that the railway line simply doesn't serve the places the tram will, and that additional line capacity is virtually non-esistant, so there is little scope to expand services.
Anyone who wants to use the existing train services can already do so. The tram servies will serve a completely different market.
And I understand some of the trees being cut down on the Boulevard were going rotten, so they would have had to come down.”
by FormerlyW
Saturday, February 11 2012, 11:29AM
“Of course all the costs should be properly counted, Mr Askew. But so should the benefits. To ignore the fact that a large fraction of the money we pay to the EU comes back through the CAP and other funding schemes, and to dismiss all the benefits such as access to the shared marketplace and buliding a marketplace into easter Europe, and count them as "almost nil," guarantees that no-one in any position of power will take anything you say at all seriously, since you clearly haven't weighed things up in any kind of objevctive manner, but simply have a single-minded agenda that is not interested in any kind of rational discussion.
Personally, I think it a great shame that the debate gets reduced to such a trivial level, since there are many important issues that should be addressed (such as the CAP, for example, which I think is outrageous). Unfortunately, this kind of position by the opposition serves only to ensure that no such discussion ever takes place, so, ironically, all you are doing in your small way is helping to preserve the status quo.”
by Crlton1
Saturday, February 11 2012, 10:15AM
“For how long is the Post going to publish nonsense letters about the Tram. It has been explained to the anti-tramers on numerous occasions that the trees are being replaced two for one and that the tram needs to go where people can get on and of it”