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Trams on wheels

  • 29-11-2008 4:20pm
    #1
    Victor
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    http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/1127/belfast.html
    Executive approves Titanic-themed project
    watch Thursday, 27 November 2008 22:37

    A Titanic-themed tourist attraction and a rapid transit transport system are to be built in Belfast as part of a £250m (€298m) investment.

    ...

    The transport route will run from the east to the west of the city and so link two areas traditionally divided on religious grounds.

    Stormont ministers gave the go-ahead for the ambitious infrastructure projects during their weekly Executive meeting.

    ...

    Work on the rapid transit system is set to get under way in 2011 and one of its stops will be at the new Titanic centre, which is on the east side of Belfast Lough.

    It will run from the Milmount in the east to Glenmona in the west and will call at the Ulster Hospital in Dundonald, Stormont, the City Hall, the Royal Victoria Hospital and a number of other destinations.

    Ministers had rejected proposals for a full tram network on cost grounds, with the rapid transit system described as being a 'tram on wheels'.


Comments

  • #2
    ardmacha
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    Ministers had rejected proposals for a full tram network on cost grounds, with the rapid transit system described as being a 'tram on wheels'.

    That's a bit Irish. Is this better than the "non wheel" trams used elsewhere?

    They should bring back the trolley buses in Belfast, or is this a trolley bus??


  • #3
    Judgement Day
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    This is coming from the 'Province' which produced the UTA (Ulster Transport Authority) which decimated the rail network in NI so you can't expect much better from them. The railways to Armagh, Newry and Comber etc should have been rebuilt years ago but when it comes to rectifying past mistakes NI puts CIE to shame and that it is really saying something! :mad:


  • #4
    corktina
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    i had to smile at the "on wheels" idea....shades of "no wheels on my wagon, but Im still rolling along"


  • #5
    dowlingm
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    If Wrightbus made trams, Belfast would have a LUAS. They make buses, so Belfast gets "trams on wheels".

    Similar platitudes have surfaced in the Republic in places like Waterford, in the name of "crossborder co-operation" (although I always wonder how crossborder co-operation would trump EU tendering rules).


  • #6
    lostexpectation
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    so will they be powered from wires above the road?


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