Re: W-Class Trams and ATMS

["Kate & Andrew" <mrmorphet@bigfoot.com>]

> 
> Goodness, you would have thought that after spending $300 million-plus, 
> the old fashioned AVM (automatic vehicle monitoring) equipment on board 
> every tram would have told the ticket machine where the tram was. 


Dave, the driver does not have to tell the machine which section the tram
is travelling in because the machine uses the AVM to find out where it is
(although sometimes it misses a section and the driver has to
press a button to update)  But this does not happen very often!