TWO TRAM PROJECTS AXED.. UPDATE 21-12-05

Merseyside tram system plan axed
Merseyside's much-troubled plans for a tram system will not go ahead, the government has announced.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/mers ... 481146.stm


End of line for Hampshire supertram plans
Ambitions to bring back trams to the streets of Hampshire have finally been quashed by the government.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hamp ... 481182.stm

 

I addition to the two stories above, The proposed Leeds Tram had a setback earlier in the month.

Leeds Tram plans reach end of the line.

Plans to have trams running through the streets of Leeds have been turned down by the government.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west ... 402746.stm


Tram refusal a 'slap in the face'

Politicians in Leeds have attacked the government for pulling the plug on plans to bring trams back to the city.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west ... 403788.stm

 

Pewsey Beaste as found this article from the archives on May 2004 which has got relevence for this thread
Bristol City tram project to be dropped
The controversial supertram project for the north of Bristol is to be officially dropped.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/3760405.stm

 

More on this from LTRA
http://www.lrta.org/news/news0534.html

 

Merseytram legal action launched

Merseytravel has begun legal action against the government in a last attempt to save the Merseytram project.


Merseytram legal action launched

 

The cancellation of Leeds Supertram means that alternative transport proposals must now be brought forward for the routes that would have benefited from the tram scheme had it gone ahead.
http://www.leeds-supertram.co.uk/News/051121-1.htm

 

Tram scheme battle taken to court
Merseytravel has won the right to challenge the government's decision not to fund its proposed tram scheme.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/mers ... 549652.stm

 

Outcry over lack of aid for growth

'Government doing Leeds few favours with little investment in transport'


LEEDS'S most senior business figure launched a withering attack on the Government's failure to support the city's growth ambitions......

http://www.leedstoday.net/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=39&ArticleID=1340272