[sustran] Re: Ultra Low Floor Tram v/s BRTS

[Brendan Finn]

Dear all, 

The original message contains two fairly standard pieces of disinformation from the tram lobby : 

1) The suggestion that the tram is rather cheap really
2) The suggestion that bus can't do the job but tram can

I am no longer surprised either by the brass-neck of the lobby, or that decision-takers and the media continue to fall for it. 

With best wishes, 


Brendan.
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Brendan Finn          e-mail : etts at indigo.ie          tel : +353.87.2530286

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anupam Gupta" <anupam9gupta at gmail.com>
To: <sustran-discuss at list.jca.apc.org>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 1:33 PM
Subject: [sustran] Ultra Low Floor Tram v/s BRTS


> Hi Everyone - I've just received the mail below on a Metro Mailing Group.
> Since I'm not an expert in these matters, I thought I'd ask the group here
> if they had any idea on the merits of a "Hi-Tech Ultra Low Floor Tram" over
> the BRTS. Thanks very much for your time. 
> 
> 
> 
> ****Mail starts****
> 
> Just a reminder to all the readers, the BRT as a concept has already 
> being implemented in Pune City. It was the first BRT corridor in 
> India and its sucessfully running in 2 corridors namely Katraj-
> Swargate and Hadapsar- Swargate, with 6 more corridors being planned 
> and under design.
> 
> There were indeed few snags even in Pune, but yet the project went 
> ahed and currently stands as in "running" condition.
> 
> On second thgoughts, a Ultra low floor Tram can be implemented 
> instead of a BRT. in the same BRT corridor, its both cheaper than a 
> Metro rail and monorail, as well as better blended in road trafic 
> than normal rail and metro transport. Several cities and towns in 
> Europe and Asia sucessfully run Hi-Tech Ultra lowfloor Trams.
> 
> Infact a few of "sucesfull" BRT corridors over a period of time 
> ultmately have infact moved either to Light Rail Systems or Ultra Low 
> Floor Trams.
> 
> The closeness of the low floor tram to the rail track and road 
> surface as well as the usage of a overhead pentograph instead of a 
> third rail as in a Metro rail makes is more suitable to blend easily 
> in city trafic along other modes of road transport.
> 
> Moreover one Low floor tram can infact take the load of 4 busses in 
> a single go.
> 
> My sugesstion is to implement the HiTech Low Floor Trams in all 
> existing BRT corridors as the concept of BRT as unimpelmentable in 
> dense traffic locations like in India.
> 
> ****Mail ends****
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Anupam Gupta
> 
> 
> 
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