Re: [Melb] Box Hill tram extension

["Mike Alexander" <malex@bigfoot.com>]

> Yes, the exciting shiny new trams with fewer seats than the ones they
replace

The A-class that run the existing Mont Albert service have 42 seats. The new
Citadis trams will have 40 seats plus 2 wheelchair spaces.

Admittedly they are 7 metres longer, but so what. Assuming that they run the
same number of trams, the number of seats per hour doesn't change, and there
is heaps more standing room.

Regards,

Mike Alexander
(malex @ bigfoot com)



"Vaughan Williams" <ender2000@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> > 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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