Just eight short years ago there were big plans for Nottingham's tram but not much happened
Cast your minds back eight years to 2016. Forest were enduring their ninth consecutive season in the Championship, Justin Bieber was taking over the music world, and Nottingham was talking about phase three of the tram network.
In 2016 Councillor Nick McDonald, who stood down in 2019, three years after making these comments, had big ideas. He wanted an additional five tram lines to be built in the area. He said: "We need the tram to go out to Gedling, Kimberley and Eastwood. We absolutely have to extend it to the proposed HS2 station at Toton and some of the ideas about it going to Derby are really interesting.
If we try to get bits of funding for minor extensions over the next 20 years we will never get viability. It's all about where it goes and the residential communities it goes through, as well as connecting to major roads it's not easy to make a tram system viable. The only way you do it is by scaling it up.
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