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Not many positive comments on the site either.
I just can't see how this can possibly help with congestion.
Things are gonna get a lot worse and i'd just like to say... I told you so..
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I was coming down Leith Walk on a bus yesterday. It was seriously busy. Got a seat in the very last row of double seats up the stair. So there were about 100odds folk on that one bus. The trams hold about 250 each iirc. There are fewer stops (think there will be 3 on Leith Walk) than the buses (about 6 stops?). So the trams themselves will be quicker to move more people about, which will also be helped by having inspectors rather than having to pay the driver.
Oh, and while I was on the bus we passed the bit of Leith Walk between McDonald Road and Shrubhill. On that stretch of road there were 18 cars containing 24 people filling up that particularly picturesque section of the Champs AeLeithy.
So hopefully if the trams are a bit quicker then it will persuade some folk to give up taking their cars. Which will reduce congestion. If it doesn't I'll still get to where I'm going quicker, and they can keep moaning like fuck about buses, follow it up with a moan about trams, and then explain how it's them that cause traffic problems and not them in their teeny wee motor...
And the price on the trams is supposed to be the same as on a bus. Day tickets or bus passes will be valid on both.