Comments on: Fantasy Metrolink

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:46:16 +0000

“How else can we have had a 14% drop in traffic levels yet slower traffic speeds in the city centre?”
I have lost count of the number of times I have asked TIF supporters that very question. None of them have ever answered it.

By: Sean Corker

Sean Corker — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:12:23 +0000

The Metrolink expansion needs to happen as a priority and shame on New Labour for using it as a blackmail tool to further their road pricing agenda and their ideologically motivated war on motorists. The TIF bid has at least made people realise that cars are a vital part of the transport toolbox, even if in Labours case as a cash cow to pay off the loan.
Birmingham are prioritising the elimination of bottlenecks in favour of free flowing of free traffic. Manchester needs to follow this course of action and reverse the negative policies of the last ten years. How else can we have had a 14% drop in traffic levels yet slower traffic speeds in the city centre?

By: Tameside Eye

Tameside Eye — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:10:59 +0000

Shame it is just a fantasy.