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Re: Melbourne Trams

Michael Walker wrote:
> 
> >I like the idea of making the Bs longer with a low floor section in the
> >middle.
> >
> Problem with this is you have one short low floor section with step ups to
> the two original halves. This probably, whilst adding some access to some
> people, actually discourages and makes inconvenient access for others. 

Pardon me for disagreeing, but this kind of solution is very common in 
Europe. I have seen trams in a number of cities where a new low-floor 
section was inserted in the middle of a formerly single-articulated tram. 
IIRC, the first city to do this was Basel in Switzerland, at least, that 
was where I first rode such a tram (in 1992). There were no problems with 
boarding, alighting or anything else.

As various people have said, however, the greatest need in Melbourne is 
for new low-floor trams, to replace the Ws, the worst Zs and allow for 
route expansion.

David McLoughlin
Auckland New Zealand

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