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

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"Ted Gay" <tedgay@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> At stub terminals the conductors of Sydney R and R1 class trams would walk
> through the tram swinging every seat back over for the new journey. I
never
> saw a passenger chose to swing the back over and sit facing the rear. On
> Sydney buses (new low floor excepted) there are four seats that face the
> rear, why are these seats always the last to be taken? Not because they
are
> the most comfortable surely?

Facing backwards does not worry me, I choose to face backwards on
Tangarbages, and when the XPT had fixed direction seating, I would always
ask for a backward facing seat  (no chance of riff-raff sitting next to you
that way).
--
Dave

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probably won't either.