Say yes to a tram for Clifton, Wilford and Compton Acres!

...a voluntary and independent group set up to give support for, and provide information on, the Clifton-Wilford (CW) tram route. This is the route the City and County Councils wish to develop between Clifton and Nottingham, along with the Beeston-Chilwell route, both together called Phase II.

Line One opened in March 2004. In October 2006 the Government agreed to pay its share of funding the proposed Beeston-Chilwell and CW routes. It is expected the tramlines will open at the start of 2013.

Traffic on Line One reached 8 million journeys at the end of its first year, and is projected to rise to nearly 11 million by March 2007.

This website has not been sponsored or financed by the tram operator, Nottingham Express Transit (NET), in any way. Nor does this website accept blindly everything the NET proposes. The Editor expresses his opinion where he considers this appropriate.

The CW tram will provide:

• Relief of road traffic bottlenecks over Clifton and Trent bridges, avoiding peak period gridlock
• Park-and-ride to take many cars off the congested A453
• Fast frequent trams direct into the heart of the city centre
• Substantial improvement of public transport in Wilford village and Silverdale
• Reclamation of the derelict Wilford embankment, and restoration of the use for which it was built
• Increases in the value of homes on the route

The trams will be positive and useful for the people of Clifton, Wilford and Compton Acres - an asset of which we can be proud in years to come.

A Nottingham tram at Wilkinson Street tram stop, just before the start of public services in March 2004.

The City and County Councils considered two tram route options from Nottingham to Clifton, being Clifton-Wilford (CW) and Clifton-Queens Drive (CQD). The CW route scored positive under cost-benefit analysis, and thus qualifies for government grant. CQD, however, was rejected in April-May 2002 as less satisfactory. click here to find out why.

In November 2002 A debate between CW YES! and Environment Not Trams was published in the West Bridgford Neighbourhood News supplement to the Nottingham Evening Post. click here to see the main issues covered by the groups.

• Join our mailing list Just email us and ask: gben001@hotmail.com
• Write to your MP, City, County or Borough councillor. click here for list of representatives.
• Write to the Nottingham Evening Post. See links below.
• Contribute to the BBC debate. See links below.

• NET is the organisation promoting and developing the tram. Click either http://www.nottinghamexpresstransit.com or http://www.thetram.net.
• NETtrams is a group of tram enthusiasts supporting the Nottingham trams in general. Click http://nettrams.net for the unofficial NET website.
• Other websites set up by tram enthusiasts on the Nottingham trams include: josefmills1/net click here and www.thetrams.co.uk click here
• BBC Message Board Join in the BBC Nottingham debating forum about the tram: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/message board.
• Nottingham Evening Post The NEP has a convenient 'Trams' link which gives you their coverage of the issue. Also check out their 'Letters' link: click here
• BACIT Beeston and Chilwell for Integrated Transport - the tram campaign north of the river in favour of the proposed tram route there: http://www.bacit.org/ .
• ENT Environment Not Trams is a group opposed to the CW tram and based in Wilford and Compton Acres. The website is http://www.environmentnottrams.co.uk and a review of it prepared by CW YES! is available on click here.
• LRTA The Light Rail Transit Association: http://www.lrta.org .
• The Big Wheel Greater Nottingham's award winning transport plan: http://www.thebigwheel.org.uk .
• Notts Transport 2000 Local branch of the national organisation campaigning for better public transport: http://transport2000.tripod.com.
• Croydon tramlink is a group of tram enthusiasts supporting the Croydon trams. http://www.croydon-tramlink.co.uk for the unoffical Croydon Tramlink website.
• Sheffield Trams is a group of tram enthusiasts supporting the Sheffield Supertram network. http://www.thetrams.co.uk/supertram for the unoffical Sheffield trams website.
• FRIXO can help you plan car or van journeys, and avoid the road bottlenecks and queues. FRIXO provides current road traffic reports anywhere in the UK, with live news and information. Contact http://www.frixo.com for the FRIXO website.

• Nottingham trams being tested in Derby, LRTA pictures: click here and actually in Nottingham on Line One click here
• Line One under construction, LRTA pictures: click here and click here. For NET pictures: click here
• Opening of Line One, pictures are available on the NETtrams website http://nettrams.net and on the unofficial Croydon Tramlink website click here
• The land of the CW tram route, before construction of the line: CW_pretram_photos_gallery.html
• The construction of Line One: L1_const_photos_gallery.html

• Manchester
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• Croydon - includes other London tram proposals

• www.tiedinburgh.co.uk - www.tramtime.com - www.edinburgh-tram.co.uk
• Dublin
• Glasgow (underground and proposed tram system)
• Tyne and Wear (metro and proposed tram system)

• There are hundreds of tram system in other countries. See the LRTA website for more details: LRTA