Re: New Melbourne trams have fewer seats than the old ones but they're longer!

[Andrew Price <aprice@mail.dotcom.fr>]

On Sun, 20 Aug 2000 13:07:48 +1200, David McLoughlin
<davemclNOSPAM@iprolink.co.nz> wrote:

>> So why did the Australians sell their trams off to a foreign operator?
>
>Not sold, just franchised for 15 (?) years, by the previous Kennett
>Liberal state government. The trains have similarly been franchised.

So it was a political decision ...

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>But all the European countries with rolling stock
>factories are demanding new trams/trains keep being built there despite
>massive overcapacity.
>
>So production of Melbourne's trams shifts from Melbourne to Germany.

If you deliberately relinquish control of something you own in
exchange for cash, then the possibility that something like this
*might* just happen is not to be entirely excluded.

How do the people of Melbourne now feel about the politicians who are
responsible for this?