Re: Diffrence between LRT

[matthew@mail.usyd.edu.au (Matthew Geier)]

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.