Re: Diffrence between LRT

[neumannc <neumannc@ozemail.com.au>]

Ted Gay wrote:
> 
> "Matthew Geier" <matthew@mail.usyd.edu.au> wrote in message
> 92tn86$q75$1@spacebar.ucc.usyd.edu.au">news:92tn86$q75$1@spacebar.ucc.usyd.edu.au...
> > In article <3a519838@news.iprolink.co.nz>,
> > David McLoughlin  <davemcl@NO***damned***SPAMiprolink.co.nz> wrote:
> > >Ted Gay wrote:
> > >>
> > >> "David McLoughlin" <davemcl@NO***damned***SPAMiprolink.co.nz> wrote in
> > >> message 3a50fa80@news.iprolink.co.nz">news:3a50fa80@news.iprolink.co.nz...
> > >> > Ted Gay wrote:
> > >> > >
> > >> > >  The light rail system in
> > >> > > Rouen France, managed by a C.G.E.A. company, trades under the
> name...
> > >> > > "m-é-t-r-o-b-u-s".
> > >> >
> > >> > And runs articulated trams of the same model introduced in Grenoble
> and
> > >> > later also used in Paris.
> > >
> > >> Can't find my source at the moment but CGEA had the franchise or
> ownership
> > >> of the local buses and the new tram system is intergrated with them,
> hence
> > >> the carry-over of the trading name.
> > >>
> >
> >  At least they are intergrated. The Sydney Light Rail competes directly
> against
> > 2 or 3 Sydney buses routes. Routes that often get the new low floor buses,
> and
> > also run right into the CBD unlike the trams.
> >
> The State Government owns and operates the bus services and that same State
> Government has denied Sydney Light Rail's request for permission to extend
> their tram tracks through the CBD.  A conflict of interest....nah!
> 
> Ted

And they are both the Ministerial responsibility of that well know
public transport supporter ROADS Minister Carl Scully.  A conflict of
interest (Mark II) ....nah!nah!

Chris