Re: [Melb] Box Hill tram extension

[Vaughan Williams <ender2000@my-deja.com>]

> I see that the DOI website does however say that construction will
> begin on platforms and overhead wires for the Sydenham rail extension
> in March. But nothing on the Box Hill Tram. All they say in the local
> paper is that route 109 to Mont Albert will be the first to trial the
> new european technology that many of the local councillors went on a
> ratepayer junket to europe to inspect.

Yes, the exciting shiny new trams with fewer seats than the ones they
replace (not that i'm denying they have some advantages) that huge sums
of taxpayer money were spent going to look at.

Interesting to note they didn't bother looking at Amsterdam or Zurich
or Vienna while they were there - only the french cities.

Strasbourg, the one they rave about, from memory carries 20 million
trips a year. The equivalent figure for Melbourne is 125 million, which
in fact adds up to all the systems they looked at combined.

I would have thought if we are going to spend a fortune going overseas
to look at tram systems we would look at ones that are outperforming
ours, not the reverse.

Vaughan


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