What needs to be done to improve Sheffield's trams?

We asked people what needs to be done to improve Sheffield's trams

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00:00 Tell me please what you think needs to be done to improve Sheffield's trams?

00:04 Well I'm just wondering what happened to the line coming from Halfway

00:08 which caused me very unpleasant experience last week when I parked at Halfway to come here to the

00:19 Cathedral and spent an hour and a half each way around all the housing estates in that area of

00:25 Sheffield to get here and back. As an aged person who would like to use the park and ride

00:33 it wasn't helpful. So do you think that needs to be improved? Well as soon as they can get the

00:39 trams back running from Halfway it will be a major improvement. Tell me please what you think

00:46 needs to be done to improve the tram service in Sheffield? I think some more additional lines,

00:52 some additional lines around the centre of Sheffield. I've just had to walk all the way

00:57 up the moor to catch this out of the park and ride. So yeah more lines, more destinations.

01:03 Where would you like to see them go? Certainly down to the bottom end of the moor

01:07 down towards Airstreet and that side. It's quite a long walk from there especially for people

01:13 who are getting on. Could you tell me please what you think needs to be done to improve Sheffield's

01:19 trams? Well I heard that they're broken today up there and they said the reason that we're waiting

01:25 is because they've got to get the engineers from London. So at least could we not get them from

01:30 Yorkshire? I mean other Yorkshire cities or Lancashire cities have got trams I think.

01:35 So why can't we get engineers from there all the way from London? Is there anything else you'd like

01:40 to see improved on them? Well the amount of track would be better if they went further.

01:48 Like if they went up to Norton or somewhere like that. Because I've just been to Basel in

01:53 Switzerland and they've got a very extensive tram system and it goes right over into France.

01:58 So the Basel people can go over to France every day. Could you tell me please what you think

02:04 needs to be done to improve Sheffield's trams? Extensions, hospital,

02:14 possibly a connection to Doncaster main line and just a general

02:21 sharpening up in appearance. I think they're the main things I'd like.

02:30 Tell me what needs to be done to improve the trams in Sheffield please?

02:36 Well to me personally what I think should be done is that we should literally ask the people,

02:42 me alone, there should be a public vote to say exactly what we want. We no longer have anything

02:48 which is run by the public. Everything is run by the private sector. And to me private sector has

02:54 really messed up my country, especially Europe as well. I'm kind of glad we're out of Europe but we

03:00 haven't seemed to have gone back to doing the stuff we had before. Are there any specific things you'd

03:04 like to see improved on the trams? Like I said, cleanliness, times, how it runs and that's all

03:15 really.