Re: 20 mins to get from Parliament to Flinders St (the short way!)

[David McLoughlin <davemcl@iprolink.co.nz>]

Christopher_Martin GORDON wrote:

> 
> I currently have exams at the Showgrounds and Catch a Train to Flinders
> Street and change to a Broadmedows train, for newmarket and catch a tram
> or walk.  I don't like going through the back streets of North Melbourne
> on the tram.


Why is this? Are they dangerous? 

I have never felt threatened on a tram anywhere in Melbourne, on the No 
57 (to which you refer) or elsewhere.

I have, OTOH, not only felt threatened on the trains, I was once even 
subjected to an unprovoked assault on one. In daylight in a full carriage 
no less.

David McLoughlin
Auckland New Zealand


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