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To Reduce Congestion, Trams Will Return To London

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Emily Rothchild
29 May 2002 - 2:00pm

A £500 million package to reduce traffic congestion will bring back trams to central London for the first time in 50 years.

In an attempt to curb congestion in the capital, London's "Mayor Ken Livingstone has given the go-ahead for a £300 million Cross River link and a £200 million tramway through west London...Up to 122 million passengers each year are expected to use the network when it returns to the city centre for the first time since 1952. "

Full Story: Trams to return to capital
Source: This Is London, May 29, 2002
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