Nice. Hasn’t Edinburgh been building trams? There’s one to the airport now, isn’t there? They need to get up to digging and make a local Tube network. The city has plenty of rock to bore through.
It has! The core bulk of the system has been up and running since 2014. The construction was a bit of a disaster, but now that it’s actually going it seems to be a success. An estimated 12 million passenger journeys last year
Huh, the line should have been open to the airport by then, it started operating in 2014 too. That said, if you were flying l;ate at night or very early in the morning then it might not have been an option, as there are no services between midnight and 6am or something like that. Also, I hope you enjoyed your time in Scotland!
Weird. I guess I might have not noticed the possible route. I do heavily favor taking railed transit, so normally I would have found the tram if it was available.
It’s even worse than I thought. I was there in 2017 and the tram was definitely open to the airport May 31, 2014! What was I not seeing?!?
I guess I’ll have to come back and visit again to make up for it. I’ve been to Scotland & Edinburgh a few times and it’s always worth the visit. I live in Germany now, so I should be hopping over at some point for a quick trip when I can find the time.
Scotland just handed out a whole bunch of grants for electric buses
Nice. Hasn’t Edinburgh been building trams? There’s one to the airport now, isn’t there? They need to get up to digging and make a local Tube network. The city has plenty of rock to bore through.
It has! The core bulk of the system has been up and running since 2014. The construction was a bit of a disaster, but now that it’s actually going it seems to be a success. An estimated 12 million passenger journeys last year
Nice! The last time I was there was 2016 (I think)? I remember seeing just a bit of the tram on Princes, but had to bus out to the airport still.
Huh, the line should have been open to the airport by then, it started operating in 2014 too. That said, if you were flying l;ate at night or very early in the morning then it might not have been an option, as there are no services between midnight and 6am or something like that. Also, I hope you enjoyed your time in Scotland!
Weird. I guess I might have not noticed the possible route. I do heavily favor taking railed transit, so normally I would have found the tram if it was available.
It’s even worse than I thought. I was there in 2017 and the tram was definitely open to the airport May 31, 2014! What was I not seeing?!?
I guess I’ll have to come back and visit again to make up for it. I’ve been to Scotland & Edinburgh a few times and it’s always worth the visit. I live in Germany now, so I should be hopping over at some point for a quick trip when I can find the time.