I wrote about an interesting transport map I saw on a stand at conference here.
A few days ago, I visited the city’s Traffic Control Centre, where I had a fascinating chat with city council officers about how traffic is monitored and managed on a day to day basis.
One of the outcomes of that was being pointed at a Nottingham-specific transport website that is really useful. It has congestion and traffic problem displays, live links to traffic cameras in the city (there are loads!). It can pick up the information shown on M1 traffic display systems.
If you push the tram button, it has detailed NET information about Nottingham’s trams, including timetables at any given stop. And very helpfully, the map also includes the future tram lines which will hopefully soon be given the green light by government. I got into difficulty describing to friends in Long Eaton the path the tram will take out to Bardills Island, and this map shows it really well. It’s really hard to explain the route the tram will take through the QMC/University – and much easier to show using the map.
The route comes in the south side of the QMC, raises up on stilts, crosses the campus at first-floor level, into a new, specific first-floor main entrance to the building. It’ll cross the ring road at that level, into the University campus, where it goes through the science and engineering corner, and then cuts behind the Djanogly recital hall and the music department buildings. I think it removes the pond with the fountain, then crosses University boulevard and runs along a strip of land to the south side of the road, meaning it has off-road running.
With any luck there will be regular bus services connecting Long Eaton with the new park and ride at Bardills Island, so my friends will have a new and easy route into the city. I’ve been trying to find out how long the tram journey would be, but not found out yet.
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