Warning bikes on Metrolink trams could 'cause major problems' as 'soft trial' plans announced
Allowing bicycles on board Metrolink trams would 'cause major problems', a committee of councillors was told as transport bosses revealed plans to use a quiet siding as an off-network testing site for a 'soft trial'.
The Manchester Evening News revealed last week a pilot scheme allowing bicycles on board Metrolink trams across Greater Manchester is now being drawn up. The city region's new active travel commissioner, former Paralympian Dame Sarah Storey, revealed she's working with transport bosses and the mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, to devise a trial.
He said prams, electric scooters, different-sized mobility scooters, dogs and people with suitcases already use the network, adding: "Constituents in Rochdale feel on a weekly basis they struggle to get on packed trams on peak times, especially on weekends. Tameside Conservative councillor Doreen Dickinson said new trams can't be bought and 'the trams we have got are what we have got'. She said: "Its a fact that on trams there are very little manoeuvring rooms. We need to look at the whole picture."
Interim chief operating officer Alex Cropper said: "The backdrop is, we have got a previous report and study that we did in 2010-11 when we bought a lot of the trams that effectively said it wasn't safe unless we made significant changes to either the trams or the associated infrastructure, because it is accessing some of the stops as well.
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