>>I don't know how Manchester manages to run the least useful tram network in the world.
You do know I live in Edinburgh, right? Although I suppose you can hardly call ours a "network". Original budget was just over £250m for two complete lines. Current total spend: £1bn for half a line that's projected to never turn a profit.
The half a line they finally settled on basically replaces one bus route. But as the tram doesn't stop in any of the useful places that the bus does, they've had to keep the bus running as well. The council budget is pretty much running on fumes now, every other department and service is being run into the ground to service the interest on the loans for the tram. User fail.
Is it Edinburgh that has (or had) half of the main road dug up for years?
With Manchester there isn't a day (and I mean every day, or at least every week day) that there isn't an issue on one of the lines. Broken down tram, points failure, general delays, random other issue.
I think it's a poorly designed system due to there being basically a single line that all trams have to pass through. Or at least it was until very recently. One issue at certain places and it ruins the whole system.
Yup it was. One major street in particular (Leith Walk) was dug up for over a year, and then they decided to cancel that part of the line. Lots of small businesses very pissed off about that, with some supposedly going under because of it.
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I would have thought so, but she was actually good in it. Not outstanding, but not too terrible. Same for Chris Hemsworth. Charlize Theron, Ian McShane, Bob Hoskins, Ray Winstone and Toby Jones can't help but be outstanding.
Are you on drugs? She was bloody awful (although from I've read of her past work, this was not unexpected). The others were fine, especially McShane and Theron.
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