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Re: Bus Privatization
- Subject: Re: Bus Privatization
- From: "Daniel Bowen" <dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au>
- Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 23:47:50 GMT
- Newsgroups: alt.planning.urban,misc.transport.urban-transit,aus.rail
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"David McLoughlin" <davemclNOSPAM@iprolink.co.nz> wrote in message
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> Melbourne also had the "tramway buses" which ran on the few former
> cable-tram routes that were not converted to electric trams (the cable
> trams lasted until 1940), on a couple of suburban former tram routes
> that were dieselised decades ago, and on a number of routes taken over
> from private operators that went bust.
>
> The "tramway bus" routes were all sold off to private companies a few
> years ago, route by route.
Same with the "railway bus" routes, 600 and the 901 (now also part of route
600) both of which replaced railway-operated tramways.
Daniel
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