Re:The demise of America's once-mighty streetcars
by fredoralive on Friday May 08, 2015 @06:29AM
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Actually, the Edinburgh trams line opened about a year ago. Hugely delayed, a shorter line than planned and massively over budget, but they're actually running trams on it now.
Re:The demise of America's once-mighty streetcars
by kagamine on Friday May 08, 2015 @08:54AM
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Where does it go? I moved from the UK so I have lost all contact with the ongoing fiascoes.
Re:The demise of America's once-mighty streetcars
by fredoralive on Saturday May 09, 2015 @07:24AM
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I may as well reply somewhat late to say the final route goes from the airport to York Place, which isn't even the complete phase 1. Or the complete Phase 1a. They basically seem to have reached to the point where the route linked the airport to the main train station and decided to call it a day.
Someone on Wikipedia made a map that illustrates the original plans vs. what has actually been built. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edinburgh_tramway_map...
(Joke explainer for the non-Scots: Edinburgh began building a street-car (tram) system some years ago, massively over budget and a huge political mess, it is now as good as shelved. There is one tram but it doesn't move, but you can look at it if you want to).