Re: Time to bring back the tram conductors

[morphet@one.net.au (Morphett)]

>Thursday 13 July 2000
>The article starts out:
>"It was meant to be the perfect family outing.
>And it was, until Mary Beech, and her two children Izzy, 10, and Jack, 12,
>stepped on to a W-class tram on Collins Street to face a man, seemingly
>drug-crazed, yelling: "I'm going to slit your throat. I'm going to kill your
>children."
>
>
>http://www.theage.com.au/news/20000713/A3073-2000Jul12.html
>
>As Chris said in another post; "It's all gone downhill since they removed
>the conductors."


Makes interesting reading on how much research the Age does for their
articles?
If I wanted to catch a W-Class on route 86 I would be waiting a while
because W's don't run down Bourke Street, not that that would worry
the Age reporter because the passenger concerned was catching a tram
in Collins Street...and again if they were going towards Fitzroy maybe
a Z Class tram would be the one to catch because the W would make them
end up in St Kilda.

Maybe I should read the Herald-Sun for some good honest reporting? <g>

(That was a joke)