guilbert53
master brummie
Can't see the point of it going to Five Ways and terminating at Morrisons, waste of money and time.
There are now a dozen or more hotels along and around Broad Street.
Thousands of people come to Birmingham for the weekend (and at other times) and stay in hotels along Broad St.
Also thousands of people come to events at Arena Birmingham (NIA), the Symphony Hall, Sea Life centre etc and work at various offices in Brindley Place and nearby.
Many of those people come by train and arrive at New St station. Others may come down from Wolverhampton (or other stops on the tram route) and want to go to the Broad St area.
Eventually the tram will run from New St station (Stephenson Street) right along Broad Street, being able to drop off and pick up people at these various hotels, local tourist attractions, and work locations.
I go up to Birmingham quite a lot early on Sunday morning taking photographs and as the day "wakes up" I see hundreds of people coming out of hotels along Broad St with their luggage and making their way down to New st station (having to lug all their luggage with them).
Eventually they will be able to come out their hotel, get on the tram, and be dropped off outside New St station.
If the councils aim is to reduce the number of cars in the centre of Birmingham (and reduce the number of cars going down Broad St) then they HAVE to replace it with some other sort of transport.
You cant just ban cars from an area and offer no alternative means of transport.
p.s. I was chatting to two people outside the Town Hall in Birmingham the other day. They had come to see an evening show at the Town Hall, and they had come from Wolverhampton by tram (and the tram stop was right outside the Town Hall), and were going back home to Wolverhampton by tram. THAT is what a local tram service offers.
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