'Foolish to Scrap Trams'
13th November 1964, Page 42
13th November 1964
Page 42
Page 42, 13th November 1964
— 'Foolish to Scrap Trams'
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Keywords :
Light Rail, Tram
ANY European city that scrapped its tramcars was foolish. This was stated by Mr. H. L. Jacobsen, a Dutch 'traffic expert, speaking in Edinburgh last week. He maintained that the capacity of rail-borne traffic was much greater than that of private transport running in one lane; and trams could maintain a higher frequency and better schedules than buses.
Mr. Jacobsen predicted that eventually every European city would be obliged to set up a .centralized control point, in which a computer would report on traffic in any given street and guide the traffic accordingly.