Re: Lisbon Trams - Some are cable

[David McLoughlin <davemcl@REMOVEiprolink.co.nz>]

David Bennetts wrote:
 
> On the subject of narrow streets, the main street of Heidelberg, Germany
> used to carry a double track tramway.  It is now a pedestrian mall. When
> the trams came along it was necessary for pedestrians to literally squeeze
> into doorways etc to let trams pass, as they overhung the footpaths.
> Heidelberg still has trams, but they serve outlying suburban areas, and
> don't enter the city centre.


No, they serve the city. They just don't run up the narrow Hauptstrasse
(the street to which you refer)  any more. The main tram layover area is
at Horten's department store which looked city centre enough to me when
I was there.

Heidelberg has been buying lots of nice new low-floor articulated trams 
in the past year or so and extending the lines, too.

David McLoughlin
Auckland New Zealand

I remember the Ice Age. It was what they claimed was happening to the
weather before they invented Global Warming.