Re: [VIC? NSW?] An idea of mine - express trams

["Hubert Lam" <hubert@imap4.com>]

the technology in one of the newest buses would easily match the features in
a modern day motor car, as Ted said, power steering, ABS (Neoplan's N4426
Centroliner has them!), and even much smaller steering wheels.


"Ted Gay" <tedgay@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> "Bradley Torr" <truenorth@one.net.au.SPAMTRAP> wrote in message
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> > Also, I think double-deckers, by virtue of being heavier and taller,
tend
> > to have slower acceleration, are harder to turn corners and harder to
> > brake. In Sydney's stop-start traffic, this is a definite disadvantage.
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> But yet in London with narrow streets, traffic in far greater volumes than
> Sydney,
> universally uses double deckers.  Modern buses, both single and double
> deckers, are equipped with power steering, brakes etc, why would a double
> decker be any harder to drive is this respect?   Having ridden buses in
both
> London and Sydney I would back a London double decker against a Mercedes
> O305 any day.
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> Ted
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