Tram-train on life support

摘要

You have to feel sorry for Junior Transport Minister Chris Mole: he seems to be handed all the humiliating climb-downs and straight-faced reversals of policy.rnDuring his visit to Sheffield on 15 September, DfT Rail announced that 'passengers in South Yorkshire could be the first in the UK to take a Continental-style tram-train under plans announced today'.rnIt was like those flash-backs Arnold Schwarzenegger keeps getting in the film 'Total recall'. Surely I remember Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly saying of tram-train on 18 March last year 'This trial, the first in Britain, could herald the start of a new era in public transport'.