Re: [Melb] Box Hill tram extension

["Daniel Bowen" <dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au>]

I have heard they *do* plan to cut the number of trams running on the 42/109
when the bigger ones come in. How else could they fit them all into Kew
depot?



Daniel
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Daniel Bowen, Melbourne, Australia
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"Mike Alexander" <malex @ bigfoot com> wrote in message
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> > 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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