{"id":5886,"date":"2013-12-04T18:22:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T18:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=5886"},"modified":"2013-12-04T18:22:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T18:22:47","slug":"tonight%e2%80%99s-the-night-first-tram-set-to-run-down-princes-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=5886","title":{"rendered":"Tonight\u2019s the Night! First tram set to run down Princes Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been confirmed that tonight (Wednesday 4<sup>th<\/sup> December) will see the first tram to run down Princes Street as part of the continued testing of the new Edinburgh Trams system. Following Mondays (see article &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=5849\">http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=5849<\/a>) successful tests between Edinburgh Park and Haymarket the last section of line down Princes Street and onto the terminus at York Place will now see its first tram movements which will mean, finally, at long last, the whole Edinburgh Trams system will have seen a tram on it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The test run is due to start at approximately 2300 and should be completed by 0400. Drivers have been reminded not to park on or near to the tram lines but have been warned if they do a tow truck is on standby to remove their vehicles. The test runs will be undertaken at walking pace so that engineers can check that everything is in order on this section of the tramway.<\/p>\n<p>Cllr Lesley Hinds, City of Edinburgh Council\u2019s Transport Convener, said: \u201cWe recognise it\u2019s been a long road getting here and there\u2019s been a lot of frustration but there has been progress more recently and, at long last, it\u2019s good to know there\u2019s a tram approaching Princes Street. This is a vital phase of our push to get trams up and running and it\u2019s important that the contractors have the time and the space to carry out these tests and checks. Everyone needs to get used to the trams as they become part of daily life in Edinburgh. Testing will step up a gear early in the New Year and we\u2019ll extend our ongoing safety campaign to ensure all road users are aware of how to share the city safely with trams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once this test run is completed it is likely that there will be very few further runs before the New Year after which time a major increase in testing will be seen along the whole of the line between the Airport and York Place. The current plan the Edinburgh Trams project team are working to will see the first passenger journeys in May 2014, although there remains the chance this date could be bought forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been confirmed that tonight (Wednesday 4th December) will see the first tram to run down Princes Street as part of the continued testing of the new Edinburgh Trams system. Following Mondays (see article &#8211; http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=5849) successful tests between &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=5886\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5887,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5886\/revisions\/5887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}