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London Electric Vehicle Chargers Proposal.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/cars/article-7150191/London-need-50-000-public-electric-car-chargers-2025.html


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    Andy Millar:

    I've just come back from a week in Prague. Trams. They're brilliant. But only work if the roads are wide enough, which in London they sadly aren't (which I guess is why they died out there).




    There used to be trams in London (just re-watched the film Genevieve last week where tram lines are a significant plot device) and I remember trams in Glasgow. The width of the road is only a problem if you want the trams to have their dedicated tracks separate from the other road users. I watched the reintroduction of trams into Croydon in about 1994 and there they have a mixture of shared roads, dedicated tracks alongside roads, and old railway lines completely separate from the roads. In Glasgow when I was growing up (showing my age now) they also had trolley buses which used the overhead power lines but didn't need the tram lines so wouldn't be a problem in narrower roads, though I believe that as they were less constrained in their road position they were more prone to coming off their trolley (and I am pretty sure that is the origin of the phrase....)

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    Andy Millar:

    I've just come back from a week in Prague. Trams. They're brilliant. But only work if the roads are wide enough, which in London they sadly aren't (which I guess is why they died out there).




    There used to be trams in London (just re-watched the film Genevieve last week where tram lines are a significant plot device) and I remember trams in Glasgow. The width of the road is only a problem if you want the trams to have their dedicated tracks separate from the other road users. I watched the reintroduction of trams into Croydon in about 1994 and there they have a mixture of shared roads, dedicated tracks alongside roads, and old railway lines completely separate from the roads. In Glasgow when I was growing up (showing my age now) they also had trolley buses which used the overhead power lines but didn't need the tram lines so wouldn't be a problem in narrower roads, though I believe that as they were less constrained in their road position they were more prone to coming off their trolley (and I am pretty sure that is the origin of the phrase....)

    Alasdair

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