Re: [Melb] Latrobe Street tram extension officially open

["andrei" <andrei@ausisp.com>]

Today's Herald-Sun had an ad with map, re how to get to the stadium for the
first events.  Info on map shows a tram route running west along Latrobe up
to a point next to the stadium (not quite reaching Footscray Rd).

Christopher_Martin GORDON wrote in message
<8a2dc2$4lg$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>...
>: > I understand that the 75 and 86 will be extended down this line in
>: > the near future. (and then the 48 will terminate at the end of Latrobe
Street
>: > thus clearing Latrobe Street for the City Circle trams)  As for the
>: > Latrobe Street routes (34, 24, etc..) I am not sure of the plan.
>
>: The plan I saw was to extend one of the Flinders Street routes (70 or
>: 75, or do you mean the 48 in this context?) around the Docklands and
>: then up Latrobe Street to the 34 terminus at Punt Road. IIRC that was
>: the 48.
>
>That is the long term plan, but you have to remember that the link along
>Footscray Road will not be complete for 12-24 months, so in the mean time
>there will be a different set up.
>
>: How will the 86 run on this line? By using the rarely used west-to-north
>: curves at Bourke and Spencer to make a right into Spencer and then a
>: left into Latrobe? Is there a set of curves northbound on Spencer
>: turning into Latrobe to do this?
>
>I suppose, they still have to add the power operated points at Latrobe/
>Spencer Street for the new line and would also need power points at the
>end of Bourke Street.
>
>
>: David McLoughlin