Flaunting our wealth before the world to replace some buses and trains with trams is socially unjust because it is misusing finite resources like fossil fuels that are desperately needed for far more urgent and important priorities. Like addressing egregious health and wealth inequalities.
£15 billion to 2040 for mainly underground and overground trams is immoral. Wiser counsels would use that money to extend the Fare-Free Public Transport scheme to everyone, for a gradual change to electric buses on bus priority roads.
And, to ease congestion, air pollution and the Covid, Climate, Ecological, Resource emergency.
UK Tram Ltd calls them "buses on rails". What's wrong with buses on roads without the rails?
Buses are more flexible than trams and stop only when they need to stop. Trams must stop at every tram stop regardless of anyone getting on or off.
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