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“It took us four weeks to build what you are about to see,” says Jim O’Boyle, a Coventry city councillor. The sight is not exactly spectacular. Behind a fence in the city centre, a small team of workers have constructed a short tram line. The tracks begin abruptly outside an estate agent, run gently downhill, turn a corner, then stop after a mere 220 metres. But the humdrum nature of the project is the exciting thing about it.
A benefit to Tram lines is that building them in under-developed or miss-developed areas of cities and suburbs raises the value of all the adjacent property which creates tax revenue and has the knock-on effect of encouraging (re)development.
Putting one that goes a quarter of a Km Downtown is another choice.