Battery-driven trams
welcome - but not on-street through Grangetown
We welcome the choice of KeolisAmey’s battery-driven trams
for the Cardiff region metro, says Max Wallis of Friends of the Earth
Barry&Vale. While they can switch to
overhead power lines for some stages, on-street overhead lines are avoided,
likewise on the spur to Penarth in Cardiff.
We call on the company to drop the plan of Transport for
Wales to route the Penarth trams on-street through Grangetown.
Reconstruction at Grangetown Station to get the trams between
Penarth Road and the overhead rail line would be substantial.
The trams will be caught up in the traffic jams; journey
times Penarth to Cardiff would be much longer than the present 11 minutes.
Unless battery-trams are allowed to run on the ordinary rail
lines, through to Central and Queen St stations, FOE doesn’t want them on the
Penarth line. Let us keep diesel trains
as on the Barry Island and Vale of Glamorgan lines, with modern rolling stock
too. We regret that those services are
not to be electrified, but let’s avoid Cardiff’s hotch-potch with on-street battery-trams.
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