Re: [melb] B2 class tram on route 72

["John Wayman" <trecker@optusnet.com.au>]

The major time keeping problem on route 72 has always been the level
crossing at Gardiner.

Cheers
John Wayman

"Daniel Bowen" <dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au> wrote in message
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> "Jeremy Lunn" <spammers-will-die@austux.net> wrote in message
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> > I've been using the route 72 tram regularly for almost 5 years and
> > yesterday morning was the first time I've ever seen a B2 class tram on
> > this route!  Is there anything unusual about this?  I don't even recall
> > seeing too many B2 class trams on Swanston St, if any at all.
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> You see them mostly during the Grand Prix, but also on routes 1, 22 and 16
> reasonably regularly.
>
> > Just for those who might not know, route 72 starts at the corner of
> > Burke and Whitehorse/Cotham Rds (Kew/Camberwell area).  It goes down
> > Burke Rd, turns right into Malvern Rd, which becomes Commercial Rd, then
> > it goes right into St. Kilda rd, which becomes Swanston St and it
> > terminates at the University of Melbourne.  It's probably one of the
> > most unreliable routes i've used.  A former tram driver told me that
> > traffic in Malvern Rd, Prahan is very bad.
>
> Burke Road, Camberwell, between Camberwell Junction and Whitehorse Road,
is
> also very bad.
>
>
> Daniel
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> Daniel Bowen, Melbourne, Australia
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