Re: Time to bring back the tram conductors

["Johann Fan" <jyf@optusnet.com.au>]

I read it as Route 12?? 86 is mentioned in a later reference to druggies and
their problems... non-honest reporting or reader error? =)

cheers
Johann

"Morphett" <morphet@one.net.au> wrote in message
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>
> >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)