Britain is an expensive place to build public transport. We don’t do things cheaply. The Cross River Tram proposed for London under Transport for London rapidly rose from £200m to £1.5bn and unsurprisingly was killed as a consequence.

So I’m delighted to see some sanity around the costs of tram spending. Blackpool has recently completed a three year program costing £100m to rebuild 26km of tram lines, adding new signalling to 14 junctions, built a new tram depot and bought 16 new trams from Bombardier.

At that sort of saner pricing trams could have a huge revival. And this is just the start of making trams cheaper to build…