Friday, December 15, 2006
CROSS RIVER TRANSIT
CROSS-RIVER TRANSIT: THE TRAM PROJECT IS GATHERING PACE
With a Project Team now in place, the long-awaited cross-river tram is moving a big step nearer to reality. During the next weeks consultations about the route options are taking place: in Lambeth the second option terminus at the Effra Road giratory in the heart of Brixton would allow future extensions to Streatham; in Southwark there are two route options at Albany Road / Burgess Park and in Peckham.
Passenger numbers are estimated to be a staggering 60 million per annum, with trams in the central area every two minutes. Journey times from Brixton or Peckham to Euston, Waterloo and Kings Cross are very impressive, the trams are low-boarding wheelchair, pram and push-chair accessible, and can carry up to 300 people. Experience with Croydon Tramlink and other British systems, such as Manchester and Nottingham, have shown that the trams are the one form of transport that really attracts people out of their cars.
Cross River Transit will be built in one go rather than opening in sections but it is not scheduled to open till 2016!! Nonetheless it needs our wholehearted support.
TfL's website or www.lrta.org gives the route map.
With a Project Team now in place, the long-awaited cross-river tram is moving a big step nearer to reality. During the next weeks consultations about the route options are taking place: in Lambeth the second option terminus at the Effra Road giratory in the heart of Brixton would allow future extensions to Streatham; in Southwark there are two route options at Albany Road / Burgess Park and in Peckham.
Passenger numbers are estimated to be a staggering 60 million per annum, with trams in the central area every two minutes. Journey times from Brixton or Peckham to Euston, Waterloo and Kings Cross are very impressive, the trams are low-boarding wheelchair, pram and push-chair accessible, and can carry up to 300 people. Experience with Croydon Tramlink and other British systems, such as Manchester and Nottingham, have shown that the trams are the one form of transport that really attracts people out of their cars.
Cross River Transit will be built in one go rather than opening in sections but it is not scheduled to open till 2016!! Nonetheless it needs our wholehearted support.
TfL's website or www.lrta.org gives the route map.
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