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Re: City Circle 'W' s back in service.

Subject: Re: City Circle 'W' s back in service.
From: "Daniel Bowen" <dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 10:21:56 GMT
Newsgroups: aus.rail
Organization: BigPond Internet Services (http://www.bigpond.net.au)
References: <3B147D2B@MailAndNews.com> <3b135740$0$25509$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au>
Xref: news1.unite.net.au aus.rail:37966


"Vaughan Williams" <ender2000@MailAndNews.com> wrote in message
> 3B147D2B@MailAndNews.com">news:3B147D2B@MailAndNews.com...
> The minister's people swore blind to me at the launch that they were doing
> the
> lot - all the route trams as well as the cc. For what thats worth...
> personally I'll believe it when I see it.

Hey, just curious, did you ask them how the $4 million for "fixing" the
fleet compared to the cost of employing the staff who used to manually
adjust the brakes (before the ill-fated slack adjusters)?

How many people was it? By my reckoning, only Southbank and Malvern depots
"normally" run with Ws now, so it wouldn't be many...


Daniel
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Daniel Bowen, Melbourne, Australia
dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au
Melbourne public transport FAQ http://www.custard.net.au/melbtrans/

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