Back on track with trams

✒ IN cities such as Amsterdam and Brussels, trams operate successfully in streets of all sizes, ages and configurations, with other traffic coping and co-operating.

Modern three-car walk-through articulated units are flexible enough for any street configurations, using narrow versions for routes with narrow old and convoluted streets.

The trams have right of way and can control traffic signals and track switches (points).

Tickets bought on the tram are dearest with cheaper reusable ones from machines on the post at each stop, or even cheaper, in advance from the office.

Come on Bristol! We had a bril

liant tram network connecting all the suburbs to the city til WW2!

Join the 21st century with a new network of modern trams!

Davina Hockin Portishead why are some people saying we should keep an ugly concrete NCP car park for its historic value?

I can’t see the point, not when the developer wants to build highdensity flats there. We need the homes.

Who wants to go and visit a historic car park? Why not create a digital replica of this and thus preserve it for posterity.

The age of the petrol-driven motor car is coming to an end. More and more people are getting around on bicycles, e-bikes and e-scooters.

And new forms of buses are emerging. And we are finally getting our act together on trains.

We need to build a whole lot more homes to house people, it’s that simple.

Let’s increase capacity. We can do that on the old Bristol Zoo site too. Let’s not get too precious about this. And we can build as needed on some “greenbelt” sites on the fringes of the city where there is land available.

Bristol has grown a lot in the last 25 years and we just haven’t built enough new homes. So let’s get cracking and make a start.

You don’t build new homes by not building new homes. You build them by building them. If it’s a choice between a brutalist concrete car park or some much-needed new flats, it’s a pretty clear choice I’d say!

Sarah Martin Bristol