Re: Light Rail Definition

Tell (telljb@ozemail.com.au)
Sun, 26 Apr 1998 09:59:12 GMT

markbau1@aol.com (MarkBau1) wrote:
>Light Rail (noun) Politician speak used to describe a tram or tramway in order
>to fool the voters that the "new" system is somehow different to what it really
>is, a tram!

Could be, but many years ago, NOBODY but Governments in
Australia could you use the term "Railway".

Remember the Silverton.? Hardly a Tram service, but
that is what they had to call it.!

The Iron Ore Roads in the Pilbara did not bother, they
were Railroads from the outset. ASR have given the old
term a miss as well. ;-)

Cheers

----Tell
Alice Springs NT