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Re: Diffrence between LRT
- Subject: Re: Diffrence between LRT
- From: "Ted Gay" <tedgay@bigpond.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 19:50:29 +1100
- Newsgroups: misc.transport.urban-transit,aus.rail
- Organization: Telstra BigPond Internet Services (http://www.bigpond.com)
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- Reply-To: "Ted Gay" <tedgay@bigpond.com>
- Xref: bclass.spectrum.com.au aus.rail:27775
"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.
>
> I've always been amused at how Rouen calls its tram system a bus system.
>
> David McLoughlin
> Auckland New Zealand
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.
Ted
Sydney 2000