Re: Cause of Long Swanston St Service Outage 21/10??

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

Bill Bolton wrote:
> 
> There was along (around 2 hour) service outage on Swanston St tram
> services from around 11:45 am on Wednesday 21/10... the problem
> appeared to be up around Latrobe St somewhere.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what caused the problem... none of the tram
> staff seems to have any idea and there weren't any public
> announcements about it?  The "northbound" track on Swanston St nearly
> filled up with trams before anyone thought to start short working
> incoming St Kilda Rd services at Flinders St.
> 

That's really slack. On my last visit, I noted that announcements were 
made in the trams telling passengers of impending delays, or when a delay 
or blockage would be cleared. There is some system which allows the 
central control to broadcast announcements to trams in particular areas 
or on particular lines.

David McLoughlin
Auckland New Zealand

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