Weymouth Quay Tramway

These days I'd worry more about physical reprisals against the railway staff...

 

To be fair, they will have done no damage to the suspension of the cars bouncing them out of the way, possibly to the wheel arches (but probably not, cars were a lot stronger in those days as long as they weren't just rust, paper mache and p45 )

I remember doing quite a lot of ad-hoc car removals in the back streets of Richmond when we were stuck behind coaches leaving the ice-rink that couldn't get past badly parked cars - though not sure my back is up to it these days...

 

A heritage railway that also runs a commuter service! Because so many of the railways that have planned to do that have made a success of it, haven't they!

 

Indeed. I should point out that I have nothing to do with the scheme - I was merely responding to flyingscotsman123's request for info on the scheme.


Keith

 

Presumably the drivers will have had adequate eyesight and so should have noticed the yellow exclusion areas and big writing saying keep clear of the trains on the road. Should have been summonsed and fined.

 

Walked the line today. Shame it's unlikely to ever to see a train again.

 

All sorts of things road users should do or not do. Cyclist should use cycle ways where provided. Motorists have lots of things they should or should not do. Pedestrians should not step into the road without looking. Normally such deficiencies are got away with. The difference here was that a piece of not particularly competent parking which would not have been a problem anywhere else brought one type of traffic, which had nearly ceased, to a shuddering halt. No amount of finger wagging changes the fact that this use was long past its time. There is another video on Youtube, taken from inside a train, which shows this even more clearly. The curvature, the clearances and the proximity to deepish water are quaint but a real problem.

PH

 

There was a GWS Vintage Train railtour to Weymouth in 1979, This droped passangers of at Weymouth station, the proceeded down the quay line, this was behind a 33. Do you mind me asking when the SVR trip went down there?

 

That brings back memories. I was on that trip.

 

Why? A cycle is defined in law as a carriage so its place is on the carriageway.

 

For the same reason that pedestrians should walk on the pavement, not in the road; because they're safer.

 

Spot on our local authority has spent a fortune making a three mile cycle way from the village to the local town and still they hold up traffic on the busy main road. They get a long blast on the horn from me as I go past but I suppose it will take some poor unfortunate truck or car driver to kill one of them before they see sense.

 

It is not always safer. It depends on the cycle path that has been put in. A lot of the cheap cycle paths are actually less safe for the cyclists.

 

I think the only way this could happen would be to close all the roads to parking traffic and fence problem parts off. 'Tramway...' on the main road wouldnt be a trouble..
A total lack of innovative thinking in Weymouth council seems to be an issue. Is it wooden sleepers under the roadmetal?

 

A pedestrian isn't defined as a carriage. Most cycle paths are useless, slow, bumpy, lacking priority, ill-maintained, never treated for ice and abused by strollers, dog walkers and intimidating youths. I am totally opposed to separate provision where separation is merely parallel to the carriageway. Real, independent cycle routes, such as we have round here on former railways, are fine. Except of course that the railways should never have closed.

 

Why do you sound your horn John? Does it help road safety or warn the cyclists of something they are unaware of? If you feel aggrieved I would suggest that you sound your horn, metaphorically speaking, at the local authority that spent money on an unwanted project. Sorry that we're into project drift so I ought to say that I have ridden safely along the route of the Weymouth Quay Tramway.

 

Be careful waving your placard, you might fall off your bicycle. These sort of comments display all the attitude to others which cyclists tend to accuse "others" of. The nearest I have come to be sent flying as a pedestrian has been by cyclists in blatant disregard of the rules of the road. One was on a pelican crossing. Good job I am not blind.

PH

 

Just to pacify the whim of "wouldn't it be nice" gricers.

PH

 

The answer to the problem you had Paul is to punish the offenders, not spend money on facilities that aren't really wanted.