Re: [Melb] French trams for the city's Paris end

["Ted Gay" <tedgay@bigpond.com>]

"David Lindstrom" <D_Lindstrom@Bigpond.com> wrote in message
news:OEVR5.87018$e5.69382@newsfeeds.bigpond.com...
> In today's Age:
> http://www.theage.com.au/news/20001120/A62382-2000Nov19.html
>
> French trams for the city's Paris end
>
> <big snip>

> A Melbourne delegation of transport representatives will travel to France
in
> December to study modern tram systems in Strasbourg and Lyon. The group
will
> include Transport Minister Peter Batchelor, the chief executive of
VicRoads,
> Colin Jordan, the secretary of the Department of Infrastructure, Lindsay
> Neilson, the chief executive of Yarra Trams, Hubert Guyot, and
> representatives from local councils.
>
>
I suggest that they include in the junket NSW's Carl Scully the Minister for
Roads, BIG Roads & HUGEMUNGOUS ROADS and sometimes Minister for Transport.
Maybe then we would get a tram service from Central Station to Circular Quay
before 2004, ie before the building of a road tunnel.

 But oh! he was Minister for Roads before he gained the Transport
portfolio.:-)

Ted