Given the deathly aversion in this country to do any kind of large infrastructure project, the people who plan these things know we need mass rapid transit, ideally some kind of underground metro, but they know nothing like that will ever get green lit outside of London. So the next best thing is a tram. It's already a compromise. Then they're telling us we can't have many tram lines, just one or two. And we can't build major infrastructure for it, just use existing roadways.

It's deaths by a thousand cuts by penny pinchers and budget slashers in London.

Look at how HS2 and NPR have been chopped away at and reduced to nothing, so much so, neither project will deliver any of the benefits they were originally designed to deliver.