On Tuesday we had a visit from Mark from the South Shields 365, who are renovating the town - including building the Word and the new interchange.
We talked about our idea to install the tram going from the marketplace down King Street and Ocean Road to the sea front. He liked this idea because it links 2 of the new improvements on the town (the Word and Interchange) and said that is was a good idea, because there aren't any transport links from the ferry to the sea front. Mark also confirmed our questions that there is old tram lines under the road and paths to the sea front - as he had to cut through them to put in the new bollards next to Morrisons. While these tracks would not be ideal for our tram, he said the foundations there are build on would prove very useful to us. When looking through our photos of the walk down street, he helped us to identify problems that we did not notice before - including the phone boxes and advertisement signs near the bridge. This was helpful to confirm our idea and help with identifying more issues we would have to face.
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By Sophie and Lilly
On Monday the 7th of October, the Harton Primary Puzzlers went on a trip around South Shields.We started the day by getting on a taxi to Haven point then we received our clipboards and pencils. On our clipboard we had a map and a sheet where we would record the good things and bad things about installing trams into South Shields. We then walked to Marine Park, where we recorded information about South Shields and the positive and negative things about Marine Park and how easy it would be to insert trams around this area. After a while, we found the bandstand and thought it would be a perfect place to install trams nearby (as lots of people like going to the bandstand/Marine Park). We then visited Ocean road and thought that the road was wide enough to install a bike path for bikes (as we do not want them to get stuck inside the tracks) and some tram tracks too. There was pleanty of restaurants there so lots of people could catch the tram and go down to Ocean road for some food, plus there was lots of bus stops and we could change them into tram stops. We then went down town and thought that it was also perfect as it was nice and wide. However in contrast, we also found lots of negative notes too. We found out that the road sweeper could stop us from inserting trams and the lampposts too. These negative things could help us improve and with our trip we have found out some problems and hopefully later we will find some solutions too. After walking down King Street, we went to The Word to do some research. We looked at some books about trams, and South Shields’ trams. They had a line going down King Street, that went along the river. We wonder if there are still tram lines under the street? by Daniel and Daniel
This week we are writing questions to ask professionals about our project. These are the professionals we will be visiting/talking to: Nexus - who run public transport in South Tyneside; 365 - who built the Word and new interchange in South Shields; PowerRoll - this is the solar panel company that we are talking to; and Beamish - this is an old fashioned town were the transport is by tram. Also we have a professor from Durham coming in to speak with us. We have asked all these people to help us as our project is a solar powered tram that runs through South Shields and passes past all the most popular places in South Shields to bring more people to the town, as well as provide accessibility to the town and sea front for people who find it difficult to access it. |
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