Re: Official launch in Bendigo of restored Sydney tram R 1808

["Daniel Bowen" <dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au>]

"David McLoughlin" <davemcl@NO***damned***SPAMiprolink.co.nz> wrote in
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> Paul Nicholson wrote:
> > But, apparently, Sir Henry Bolte, would have nothing of it.
>
> Bolte was around even then? Good lord. He hated trams, despised them. At
> least he didn't have the power to have them axed, he just starved the
> independent tramways board of capital.
>
> It sickened me when the new bridge over the Docklands was named after
> him.

Most suitable I thought - an ugly tollway bridge with zero use by public
transport.

Anyway what did you expect, he was Kennett's hero.

> Is he still alive? He was last time I heard.

I don't think so. There was a lot of fuss last year when Kennett was found
to have "accidentally" taken a very valuable painting of Bolte home with
him. The way the papers wrote about it then, it sounded like he died some
time ago.


Daniel
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