Re: Diffrence between LRT

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

"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